THE LIFEBOAT.

The Journal of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.

VOL. XXVIII.—No. 305.] FEBRUARY, 1931. [PRICE

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 91 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 100 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1931 62,533

The Life-boat Service in 1930. THE year 1930 was, after the first helped to safety. Since the Institution month, free from the terrible storms was founded in 1824, up to the end of which made 1929 memorable, but the 1930, it has given rewards for the rescue need for an ever-vigilant Life-boat of 62,487 lives—an average of 11 lives Service was again shown, and once more a week for nearly 107 years. the Service was fully equal to the demands made upon it. In fact, Four Medal Services. though the year was much calmer, the The year was marked by a number of number of lives rescued was actually a fine services. The outstanding service little larger than in 1929, and the record was performed by a Scottish Motor Life- of rescues, month by month, shows that, boat, the one stationed at Longhope, in in summer as in winter, there is scarcely the Orkneys, for which Coxswain John a week in which, somewhere round our Swanson was awarded the Silver Medal, coasts, the services of the Life-boats are while two other services only less note- not required. worthy were performed by English Their busiest time was in the wild, Motor Life-boats, for which Bronze weather of January. There were gales Medals were awarded to Coxswain on sixteen days, and the wind in the Robert Hood of Hartlepool, and Cox- English Channel rose to 103 miles an swain Frederick Barnes of Selsey. The hour. During that month there were Institution also awarded three Bronze 34 launches, and the Life-boats rescued Medals for one of the finest shore-boat 54 lives. In September there were services of recent years, the rescue by 31 launches, and 53 lives rescued ; and three Irish fishermen of the crew of a in December 30 launches and 41 lives sinking steamer. The rescue was carried rescued. These are the figures of rescues out in an open boat, and the rescuers by Life-boats. They rescued 298 lives themselves were in imminent peril of during the year, and in addition the losing their own lives. Institution gave rewards for the rescue The Longhope service was fully of 67 lives by shore boats and in other described in the issue of The Life-boat ways. Altogether 365 lives were rescued for last March, and accounts of the other —one for each day of the year, and three services will be found elsewhere 30 boats and vessels were saved or in this issue. 214 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. Services to Foreign Vessels. plane traffic and the heavy passenger Although the majority of the 365 lives steamer traffic across the Straits. She rescued were British, the Life-boats is 64 feet by 14 feet, with two 375 h.p. again showed that they are a great engines, giving her a speed of between international as well as a great British 17 and 18 knots, and is the largest and service. Altogether 16 foreign vessels, fastest Motor Life-boat in the world. belonging to nine different countries, Altogether twelve new Motor Life- were succoured, and 71 lives were boats were completed and sent to their rescued from them. Three of the Stations. Of these boats, six went to vessels were French, three Swedish, the English coast, Dover and Hythe two German, two Danish, two Belgian, (Kent), Berwick-on-Tweed, Newhaven one was Norwegian, one Japanese, one (Sussex), Weymouth (Dorset), and Tor- Greek, and one belonged to the Free bay (Devon) ; three went to Wales, City of Danzig. Moelfre (Anglesey), and Fishguard and Tenby (Pembroke) ; one went to Scot- Loss of Life. land, Lerwick (Shetland Islands) ; one Unfortunately the year was not free to Ireland, Ba)lycotton (Cork) ; and one from loss of life in the Service. During a launch of the Filey Life-boat, at the to the St. Mary's (Isles of Scilly). At the end of the year there were ninety end of August, to the help of a vessel which had gone ashore in a fog, a Motor Life-boats in the Institution's Fleet 'of 194 boats ; and another fifteen member of the Crew was run over by were under construction. the Life-boat Carriage and killed. The man left a widow and two daughters. Help of the Royal Family. The widow has been granted a pension The Institution received during the as from the date of the accident, and a year remarkable proof of the personal weekly allowance for one of the two and generous interest which the Royal daughters, who is under sixteen. Family have taken in the work of the During a gale at the end of December, Life-boat Service since its foundation. the Motor Mechanic at Aranmore, Co. Their Majesties, the King and Queen, as Donegal, the son of the Honorary Patrons of the Institution, H.R.H. the Secretary, was blown over the end of Prince of Wales, as its President, and the pier and killed, when he had gone to H.R.H. Princess Louise, Duchess of see if the boarding-punt was secure. He Argyll, as Patron of the Ladies' Life- was unmarried, and had no dependent T boat Guild, attended a Variety Matinee relatives, so that no pension w ill be given, in London in aid of the Institution. but a memorial tablet is to be erected. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales named the New Motor Life-boats. new Motor Life-boat at Dover ; H.R.H. The year was noteworthy for the the Duke of Gloucester named The sending to the coast of the first Life- Princess Mary, the new Motor Life-boat boat which has been designed and built at Padstow ; H.R.H. Prince George in order to go to the help of aeroplanes named new Motor Life-boats at Walton- which come down at sea. This boat, on-the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea ; and named Sir William Hillary, after the H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught issued founder of the Institution, is stationed a special appeal to those regiments in at Dover, where she will serve the the Army of which he is Colonel or double purpose of protecting the aero- | CoIonel-in-Chief.

Lectures to Training Ships. DURING the winter Captain G. C. on the Life-boat Service. The ships Holloway, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., a which he visited are the Cornwall, member of the Committee of Manage- Warspite, Arethusa, Worcester, Conway, ment, has visited the principal Sea Indefatigable and Exmouth, and the Training Ships for boys and given Nautical Training College at Pang- lectures, illustrated with films or slides, bourne. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 215 Two Bronze Medal Services. Hartlepool (Durham) and Selsey and Bognor (Sussex). ON the morning of 26th September last a the Life-boat as she arrived with the three-masted Danish auxiliary schooner, nine rescued men. The abandoned the-Doris, of Thuro, attempted to enter schooner continued to drag until she the harbour at Hartlepool. A strong grounded and became a total wreck. N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a very It was a rescue very skilfully and heavy sea and rain, and Hartlepool Bay smartly carried out in the face of great was all broken water. The schooner was odds. The schooner, being in ballast and in ballast and her engine was of small riding to her anchors in heavy breaking power. She failed to make the entrance, seas, afforded no lee for the Life-boat. and was driven to leeward across the bay. She was jumping and slewing violently, She narrowly missed the Longscar Rocks and the skill with which the Life-boat and anchored near them in heavy break- was handled can be judged from the ing seas, which caused her to labour fact that not only was ths whole crew of heavily, with violent pitching and roll- the schooner rescued but that in the four ing. Then her anchors began to drag. attempts to get alongside the Life-boat The Motor Life-boat was launched was not damaged. at 12.35 P.M. and made her way to the The Institution has marked its appre- schooner, shipping heavy seas. Several ciation of the skill and courage shown times the after shelter was full almost by awarding to Coxswain Robert Hood to the top. With great difficulty the the Bronze Medal and by making Life-boat got alongside, and the Cox- additional monetary awards to him and swain hailed the schooner by megaphone, each member of the Crew. The Medal but the Master was unwilling to leave was presented by the Marchioness of his vessel. The Life-boat was driven Londonderry, D.B.E., a Vice-President away southward by the heavy seas, of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. but again approached the schooner. The Coxswain then told her Master Selssy and Bognor (Sussex). that he was in a very dangerous position, On 2nd November, 1930, at 10.30 in and that if he went on the rocks close the morning, the Selsey and Bognor by the Life-boat would be unable to Motor Life-boat was launched, as news get near him. The Life-boat was again had been received that a vessel was in driven away, and on approaching for the difficulties to the west of Selsey Bill. A third time saw that the crew were ready W.S.W. gale was blowing, with hard with lines to throw, but once more she squalls of wind and rain. A heavy sea was driven awav by the seas. was running and the weather was misty. At fhe fourth attempt one of the After the Life-boat had passed round the Life-boatmen was able to throw a small Bill and the neighbouring shoals, she line to the schooner. The men on found the yacht Lucy B., of Rye, in board made a rope fast to it. This was broken water, in a small bay formed by hauled to the Life-boat, and by this two shoals, " The Streets " and " The means she was brought close along- Hounds." She was on a dead lee shore side the schooner. Eight of the nine in the full force of the gale. men on board her jumped into tfye Life- The yacht had carried away some boat, but the last man was washed back gear, and the two men on board her had by a sea. The Life-boat was still been unable to start the auxiliary fast to the schooner ; she hauled still engine. They had let go their anchor closer alongside ; and the last man as they got near land, but it would not jumped down into the arms of the Second hold ; the yacht drifted rapidly, and, as Coxswain. The rope was then chopped the Life-boat came in sight, the cable away, and the Life-boat got clear, parted and the two men ware just about returning ashore through very heavy to make a desperate effort to reach the seas. A great crowd had gathered shore by swimming. The yacht was along the town wall and loudly cheered then little more than a quarter of a mile 216 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. from the shore. To those on shore it from Mr. William Thornton, " late mate seemed impossible for the men on the of the Lucy B." enclosing a donation in yacht to be rescued. She was in little gratitude for his rescue. more than six feet of water, with a whole gale blowing. The • seas were going A SECOND SERVICE. clean over the Life-boat; though so Less than twelve hours later the close in, she was at times invisible ; and Selsey Life-boat was again called out. those on shore expected to see her During the afternoon the Crew had capsize. But the Coxswain, without stood by, as there was a good deal of hesitation, took her into the breakers traffic in the Channel, and the second and ran alongside the yacht. One of call came at 10.20 P.M., when news was the two men succeeded in jumping into received from the Coastguard that a her. Then the yacht sheered off. vessel was in distress five or six miles Twice more the Life-boat attempted S.S.W. of Selsey Bill. A strong gale to get alongside, but the water was so was still blowing, though it had moder- shallow that it was impossible. Then ated a little since the morning, and a she tried to get a line and buoy to the very heavy sea was running. It-was yacht. This succeeded. The man on only with great difficulty and at con- board was able to get hold of the buoy, siderable risk that the Crew boarded and the Crew hauled him through the the Life-boat at her moorings by means water in the buoy and got him on board. of two shore boats. She got away at The Life-boat was then so near to the 10.40, and fifty minutes later she shore that she had to go astern before reached the vessel, the Greek steamer she could turn. She reached her Station Menelaos, of Piraeus, laden with coal and again at 12.15, but it was impossible, coke and bound for Tunis from Rotter- with the sea running, to take the Life- dam. Her steering gear was disabled ; boat up the Slipway, so she was secured her hatches had been stove in ; and she to her moorings, and the Crew and the was unmanageable. Earlier in the day rescued men came off in a shore boat, the Motor Life-boat from Bembridge, which, in itself, was no easy task. Isle of Wight, had gone out to the This was a service in which great Menelaos, but her crew had not then skill and seamanship were shown by the wished to leave her, and had asked that Coxswain and great courage by the a tug should be sent to their help. whole Crew. To Coxswain Frederick When the Selsey and Bognor Life-boat Barnes the Institution has awarded its reached the steamer at 11.30 P.M. she Bronze Medal, and to each member of found that twelve of the crew had the Crew its Thanks inscribed on Vellum. already been taken off by a Leyland Additional monetary awards were also liner ; but the liner dared not stand by made to the Coxswain and Crew, a any longer, as the Menelaos was drifting Letter of Thanks was sent to the rapidly towards shoal water, and had Assistant Honorary Secretary, Mr. J. E. sent out an S.O.S. The Life-boat went Francis, and a Letter was also sent to alongside, and the remaining seven men the Board of Trade commending the on board the Menelaos climbed down Station Officer of Coastguard. He had a rope over the ship's side and dropped been the first to give the alarm, having into the Life-boat. Just after midnight gone, while off duty, to see if all was well she brought them safely ashore. The to the west of the Bill, which was out of Menelaos herself became a total wreck. sight of the look-out position. For this service the usual monetary The Institution received a letter awards were made. Forthcoming Articles. A NUMBER of articles which it had been field, Honorary Secretary of the Kessing- hoped to publish in this number have land Branch," " A German Award to been held over owing to lack of space, Margate," " Special Gifts," " Life-boat among them being " Honorary Workers Days in 1930," a.nd " Charterhouse of the Institution : Mr. Ernest Wool- and the Life-boat Service." FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 217

Three Gallant Irish Fishermen. THE Institution has awarded Bronze The boat was very heavily loaded Medals to three very gallant Irish with six men on board. It was im- fishermen, John Nolan, John Cahill and possible to return against wind and tide, his son Joseph Cahill, of Tralee, Co. so she was headed to leeward, the Kerry. men hoping to make the shore about a At 4.0 in the afternoon of 7th Novem- mile up the bay. As it was, the return ber last, the S.S. Co-operator, of Tralee, journey was very perilous. The boat left Fenit to go up the bay to Tralee, was so low in the water that water was with 113 tons of maize on board. A continually washing in, and it was only strong gale was blowing from the by constant baling that the men were W.S.W., with squalls of whole gale able to keep her afloat. They succeeded force. A heavy cross sea was running, until they were within a few feet of the and the weather was thick and wet. land. Then the boat was swamped and When less than halfway up the bay the sank, but all six men managed to steamer shipped several heavy seas, scramble ashore. No sooner were they which carried away her tarpaulins and on shore than the engineer of the washed off her hatches. She began to steamer fainted. founder at once about a quarter of a mile It was a rescue carried out in circum- off shore. It was then six o'clock. stances of great danger. The diffi- The steamer's plight was seen by the culties against which the three brave three fishermen, who at once launched a fishermen had to struggle can be small pulling boat. She was only thirteen judged by the fact that they only feet long. Fortunately the steamer was travelled one mile and a quarter, and slightly down wind from where the they were out for an hour and a half. boats were lying on the beach. But for During all that time they were in that the three men could not have imminent peril of losing their own lives. hoped to reach her, as it would have Besides the Bronze Medals awarded been impossible for them to row against to them for their gallantry, they have wind and tide. They got their boat each received a monetary award. The under the lee of the sinking steamer. Medals were presented to the men on Then, after several attempts, they were 9th February by Mr. Finian Lynch, able to get alongside and rescue the Minister in the Irish Free State for three men on board. Lands and Fisheries.

Rescue from a Yacht. Letters of Gratitude. AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd Novem- struck on the Shipwash Shoal, had ber, a wireless message was received at drifted off and had sprung a leak. It Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the was only with great difficulty that the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Life-boat was able to get alongside, as Lightship could see flares four to five the yacht was pitching and rolling miles to the north-west. A whole gale heavily. She found the nine people on was blowing from W.S.W., veering later board in a state of exhaustion, but they to N.W. The weather was thick and were all rescued without mishap, and very cold, and a very heavy sea was five hours later, shortly before 3.0 in running. The Life-boat got away at the morning, she brought them ashore. 7.45, picked up the flares, and, two A few hours later the Life-boat was hours after leaving her Station, found again called out, and again it was a the vessel in distress. It was the yacht that was in distress. Just before Auriga, of London, a 101-ton auxiliary 8.0 in the morning a message came from schooner yacht, with seven men and the Coastguard at Clacton-on-Sea that a two women on board. The yacht had yacht was driving towards the Gunfleet 218 THE LIFEBOAT. FEBRUARY, 1931.] Sands, about four miles S.S.W. of my dying day : those strong features of Clacton pier. The Clacton Motor Life- courage and endurance, and those boat was already out on service in stalwart figures, lit up by the light of answer to signals from the Nore Light the engine-room. They seemed to be in Vessel, so the Walton boat put out at their element and on a pleasure cruise, 1 8.15. The gale had moderated, but it not heeding the danger they had put was still blowing strongly from W.N.W. themselves to to come and save us. ... An hour and a quarter later the Life- I have done much sailing and cruising boat found the yacht, the auxiliary of all sorts and in different seas—for I cutter Holiday, of Yarmouth, drifting love the sea. I have also met with with no one on board. She took her in very bad seas and often had very tow and brought her into Walton, bad weather and circumstances to arriving at 1.15 P.M. On these two battle with, and have almost been services the Life-boat was out for drowned twice, but I have never as yet thirteen hours. met men like those of the Walton Life- The rescue of the nine people on boat, with such kindness and considera- board the Auriga was carried out with tion. ... skill and despatch, and the Institution " Their kindness to us all and the skill has marked its appreciation of this fine with which the boat was handled in the service by awarding to Coxswain John difficult passage to Walton-on-Naze are C. Byford its Thanks inscribed on things I shall never forget as long as I Vellum, and by making extra monetary live. These men are real heroes. ... I awards to Coxswain and Crew. realize now what wonderful men are The Life-boat which carried out the those who man the Life-boats all around service was the new Waltou boat, the coast, and who are so willing to lisk E.M.E.D., which H.E.H. Prince George their precious lives to save others. named last summer, and a message was None of your Crews can be kinder, received from the Prince heartily con- braver, more efficient than that of the gratulating the Coxswain and Crew. Walton Life-boat. ... I also wish to mention the exceedingly kind welcome The Thanks of the Rescued. we received on landing at the pier of Walton at 2.30 A.M. on Sunday morning The skipper of the Auriga also wrote from all those who had come to see sending his " heartfelt thanks to the about our welfare, in giving us hot Coxswain and Crew whose promptitude cocoa and seeing to our being conveyed and superb seamanship were entirely to the hotel where every comfort was responsible .for our lives," and the awaiting us. Your local Secretary, following letter, most graphically Captain W. Oxley, was kindness itself, describing the feeling of those rescued and I do hope he will feel how sincerely from peril of their lives at sea, was grateful we are, all of us, for his hospi- received from Mrs. F. E. Pellew, who tality and attentions. was on board the yacht with her only " I only want to add that my next- son. door neighbour's little son, aged 6, was " I was one of the unhappy crew of so struck with the narration of our ship- the yacht Auriga that was wrecked on wreck that he instantaneously asked to Saturday night on the Shipwash Sand- go out, and went and put 2d in the bank. Our engine out of action; the box for the Life-boat Fund, and to-day yacht drifting helplessly in the gale ; he rushed up to me and told me that he all seemed lost ; when the Life-boat had put his 2s. 6d., all his week's money, came out of the waste of water and was in the box, because they had saved skilfully brought alongside and one by Tante Frances's life. ... I have to one we jumped on board. repeat the story so many times and he " I cannot express my feelings as I never gets wearied of it." should like to do towards those dear The Institution later received a gift of Life-boatmen. It is almost impossible, £50 from Mrs. Pellew's husband, Captain. but one thing will remain in my mind to E. I. P. Pellew, O.B.E., M.R.C.S, FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 219 L.R.C.P. Mrs. Pellew's only son, it is Exmouth, who was one of the original interesting to know, is a direct descen- subscribers to the Institution when it dant of Admiral Pellew, first Viscount was founded in 1824.

An Ex-Naval Man's Gratitude. ON 25th October last, the Motor Life- for the rescue of himself and his boat at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, son. went to the help of a small boat which, He wrote : '"I am an ex-naval chief while on the way from Walton to petty officer with seven children, and in Clacton, had been carried out to sea. all probability I should have lost my The sea was rough, with heavy squalls son and myself but for the timely help blowing. The Life-boat found the boat of the Walton Life-boat. After my with two men on board. She was quite twenty-three years at sea in the Royal ; unmanageable, being already half full Navy I now feel quite a greenhorn, and I of water and in danger of sinking. The I can now more realize this wonderful i Life-boat took the two: men on board organization and its value to all poor and brought them into Clacton. The and distressed brothers on land or sea. Institution received a letter from one of I send my heartfelt thanks and my the two men expressing his gratitude wife's and family's."

Light Motor Life-boats. By Commander Edward D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Chijf Inipsctor of Life-boats. UNTIL 1921 Motor Life-boats could only | 8 feet 10 inches. She has 115. air-cases, be placed at Stations where it was and 8 water-tight compartments. She possible to build a Launching Slipway, is fitted with a new engine of 1^ litre or where the boat could lie safely at capacity, developing 35 h.p. at about moorings. In that year an experimental 3,000 revolutions per minute, and Motor Life-boat was built, 35 feet by giving a speed of 7J knots. During 8 feet 6 inches, weighing under 7 tons, trials this engine ran for an hour with and driven by a 35 h.p. engine. This the engine-room full of water and the was the first attempt made to provide a engine submerged. She carries enough Motor Life-boat light enough to launch petrol to be able to travel 116 miles at off a Carriage on the open beach. This full speed without refuelling. She is a boat was stationed first at Eastbourne, very handy boat. She has a very small and is now at Kirkcudbright. She was turning circle and can make a half turn followed by another boat of the same in eighteen seconds. She takes only type, an improvement on the first, but twenty seconds to come to a dead stop still experimental, which was stationed from full speed. In another twenty at Scarborough in 1923. Finally, last seconds she can be moving at full speed year, another boat was built of the same astern. The Hythe boat is the first to type, but with important modifications, have vertical relieving scuppers in the which constitute it a new class of this sides, instead of valves in the deck. Of type. This boat was stationed at these she has sixteen. Should a sea Hythe, and with her completion the break on board, she could free herself Institution believes that the experi- in about twelve seconds—more quickly ments have reached a successful con- than any other type of Life-boat. If clusion. she were capsized, even with a hole in her bottom, she would right herself in The Lightest Type. four seconds. • In rough weather-she can The Hythe boat is 35 feet 6 inches bv take thirty people on board. 220 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931.

By courtesy of\ \The Sottthend Times. RETURNING FROM THE RESCUE. The Motor Life-boat, Greater London, at Southend on-Sea (Essex), returning with five men and a woman, the crews of three barges in distress at the mouth of the Thames, on 23rd November, 1930. The mast of one barge which sank can be seen in the distance.

THE LIGHT SELF-RIGHTING TYPE OF MOTOR LIFE-BOAT. The City of Nottingham, stat'cned at Hythe, Kent, 35 feet 6 inches by 8 feet 10 inches, with a 35 h.p. engine. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 221 The light Motor Life-boat described take seventy people on board in rough above is of the self-righting type, and weather. the great majority will be self-righters. Successful Experiments. There are, however, a number of This boat will be much heavier than Stations where the Crews definitely the 35 feet 6 inch boat. Her weight prefer a Life-boat which, while not able with gear and crew will be 16^ tons. to self-right, is more stable, and, there- She will, in fact, be too large and heavy fore, less likely to capsize. A light for launching off a carriage. This type Motor Life-boat of the Liverpool type is intended for those Stations where the . has, therefore, been designed, which will Life-boat is run down the open beach be 35 feet 6 inches by 10 feet ; will be of on skids. Such a boat has not only to approximately the same weight as the be specially designed with an unusually light Self-righting Motor Life-boats; flat bottom, so as to keep as nearly as and will be driven by the same 35 h.p. possible upright while being launched, engine, giving a speed of 7£ knots. The but has to be very solidly built to stand first boat of this new type is now under the bumping on the beach. Hitherto the construction for Hoylake. heaviest Pulling and Sailing Life-boat to be launched in this way has weighed, A 41-Foot Beach Boat. with gear and crew, 12J tons. During There still remain, however, a number last autumn trials were held at Aldeburgh of Stations which present a double (Suffolk) with the late Campbeltown problem. Their launching conditions (Argyllshire) Motor Life-boat, a 43-foot make it impossible to equip them with Watson boat weighing 16| tons. These one of the heavier types of Motor Life- trials were carried out on a semi- boat. At the same time, the conditions permanent Slipway of rollers laid on the at sea require a larger and heavier type beach. The boat had not been specially of Life-boat than the light 35 feet 6 inch built for such launching, but the trials boats. The Institution has therefore served the purpose of showing that a designed another type of Motor Life- Motor Life-boat of this weight could be boat which is a further development of successfully launched off the open beach. the Norfolk and Suffolk type, and will It is not too much to say that these be known as the Aldeburgh type. This new designs are the most important new type will be 41 feet by 12 feet developments of recent years. The 3 inches. It will have twin screws satisfactory completion of the experi- and two 35 h.p. engines, which will ments with a light 35 feet 6 inch type give a speed of about 8 knots. The will enable motor power to be used at a engines will be watertight, and will large number of Stations where, up to work independently, but they will be in the present, the launching conditions one engine-room. The boat will carry had made it impossible to place Motor 110 gallons of petrol, which will enable Life-boats, and the Institution is now her to travel 130 miles at full speed. going rapidly ahead with the work of Like the 45 feet 6 inch Watson cabin equipping them with motor power. Of type, this new type will have no end- the fifteen Motor Life-boats under con- boxes, but a flush deck fore and aft. struction at the end of the year, thirteen She will have one large cockpit, with were of this light type. Twelve of these room for twenty-four men, under a large are self-righters and the other is the shelter,.which will also cover the engine- light Liverpool type which is being built room. She will be a handy boat like the for Hoylake. smaller and lighter self-righting boat, The 41-foot Aldeburgh boat for launch- able to come from full speed to a stand- ing off the beach will also make it pos- still in twenty-five seconds, and then sible to place Motor Life-boats at from a standstill to full speed astern in several important Stations, at which, another twenty-five seconds. Like the up to the present, it has been necessary self-righting boat, she will have vertical to retain Pulling and Sailing Life- relieving scuppers in the sides. Of these boats, owing to the difficulties of there will be eight. She will be able to launching. 222 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931.

The Wreck of the "Indian Chief/' 5th January, 1881. The Aldeburgh Life-boat's Journey of 120 Miles. By Walter Riggs, Honorary Secretary of the Aldeburgh Station. IT is just fifty years since the barque Aldeburgh about 9 o'clock in the morn- Indian Chief, outward bound from ing of 6th January, and the assembly Middlesbrough to Yokohama, was signal was immediately fired. A crew wrecked on the Long Sand, off the mouth was collected, but, owing to the terrible of the Thames, and the twelve survivors sea running, it was considered almost of her crew of twenty-nine men were impossible to launch the boat. After rescued by the Ramsgate Life-boat, City consultation it was decided to make an of Bradford, with the help of the attempt and a crew volunteered. The Ramsgate tug A id—as fine a piece of Coxswain was Rodney Pallant, with rescue work as has ever been recorded. Charles Ward, Second Coxswain, while It must not be forgotten, however, the Crew included such other well-known, that there are very many stories of life-savers as James Cable, Tom Ward, endurance and heroism of our Life- Harry Pallant, Fred Fisher, B. Kersey, boatmen that do not actually result in E. Markham, John Green, George life-saving, but are none the less worthy Burrell, Tom Cable and W. Mann. One of recognition. It is fitting that just volunteer named Jim Hurrey should be fifty years after the event one such story mentioned, as he was not a regular should now be told in full for the first Life-boatman, but volunteered on this time—the story of the part played by the occasion. Two other members of the Aldeburgh Life-boat in that memorable Crew were skippers of Aldeburgh cod shipwreck in 1881. smacks, who happened to be at home at The Indian Cnief was wrecked at 2.30 the time. in the morning of 6th January, but her plight was not known to the Life-boat A Difficult Launch. authorities at Ramsgate till nearly noon, A launch was eventually effected at the information being brought by an 11 a.m. after great difficulty. It was inward bound smack which had sighted impossible to get across the long line of the ill-fated vessel ashore. The weather breaking water on the shoals opposite prevailing at the time was a typical the town, so the boat, under sail, reached easterly gale, with frequent snow squalls alongshore between the shoals and the and the temperature below freezing breakers for about two miles before she point. I do not propose to deal here could edge off into deeper water. She with the particulars of the wreck and was fitted with dipping foresail and rescue, which have been so well described standing mizzen, and both the storm elsewhere,* but should like to place on sails were close-reefed, but, in spite of record what the Aldeburgh Life-boat, this, the wind was such that the boat George Hounsfield, did in this historic was full of water to leeward between the gale. drum heads, and the crew were soon The fiis; information of the wreck of soaked through. Conditions were slightly the Indian Chief, received at Aldeburgh, better when they managed to fetch was in a telegram from Gravesend to the under the lee of the Shipwash Sands. effect that a vessel was ashore on the Heavy snow squalls were continually Long Sand. It appears that a steamer, experienced, but they managed to pick bound for the Thames, when proceeding up the Sunk Light Vessel. From here, up Swin had sighted her on the Sand, in the light of the westering sun, which between the snow squalls, and had given now broke through the snow, the seas the information on her arrival at Graves- could be seen breaking on to the Long end. The telegram was received in Sand and shooting up mast-head high. * In The Lifeboat for February and May, Soon the mast of the Indian Chief was 1881, and August, 1915, and in Britain's seen through driving snow, with the seas Life-boats. breaking over the foretop. Only one FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 223

/ courtesy oj\ {Mr. S. C. T. Gomlini/. THE '\GEORGE HOUNSFIELD" TO-DAY. She was a self-righting Life-boat, 40 feet by 10 feet; served from 1870 to 1890 and rescued 99 lives. She now lies on the beach at Aldeburgh, where she is used as a store. In frcnt of her are Tom Cable and John Pead, the present Coxswain.

By courtesy of] [Mr. CKarles Clarke. THE 'GEORGE HOUNSFIELD" ON SERVICE IN 1882. Going out to the schooner Rambler of Folkestone in a whole gale with a very heavy sea. She rescued four of the crew of five who had taken to the rigging. Shortly afterwards the schooner's masts went by the board. 224 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY,1931. mast was standing, the main and mizzen they mustered again immediately, and, having been carried away during the with the exception of one man who was previous night. Just at this time, as too exhausted, Jim Hurrey, referred to the sun was about setting, the boat above, who was not a regular Life-boat- fetched up under the lee of the wreck man, they all responded to the call. close enough to ascertain that there Hurrey's place in the boat was taken by were no living souls on board. The Cox- Bob Wilson, an Aldeburgh man who swain having satisfied himself on this was stationed at Harwich as a pilot. point, the Life-boat was put about and headed for the Sunk Light Vessel in A Night at Sea. order to find out if it had any informa- tion of any other Life-boat having been The wind was still blowing gale force from the eastward. There was no tug in communication with the wreck. How- ever, it was impossible to get in touch available, so they had to beat out of with the crew of the Light Vessel. It the Harbour. Once clear they managed was known later the Ramsgate Life-boat to fetch to windward to the Naze, thence had rescued the survivors at dawn that across the lower end of the Gunfle^et to- same day, some hours before the Aide- the Swin Middle Light Vessel. On burgh Life-boat received the news of getting into communication with the crew of the Light Vessel they ascer- the wreck. tained that the vessel was ashore on the Running Before the Gale. Maplins, but they could not get the It was not possible to take the boat bearings, and no flares or signals had back to Aldeburgh to land there, so it been shown for two hours past. The was decided to run to Harwich, and the search could not be continued in the Coxswain put his helm hard up and bore darkness and snow, so the Coxswain let away. Terrific seas were running across go his anchors between the Swin Middle the shoal water outside the entrance to Light Vessel and the Maplin Pile Light Harwich Harbour. At times the boat to wait till daylight. It was blowing seemed to be becalmed between the hard, snowing and freezing all that racing seas and at other times she felt night. At daybreak the conditions had the full force of the gale and tore somewhat improved, so they got their along on the backs of the breaking anchors up and ran down to the Maplin combers. By marvellous helmsmanship Sands, where they sighted the wreck. the boat was kept well before the wind. She was a large foreign barque in ballast, Had she broached to nothing whatever driven well up on to the Sand. The could have saved a capsize. Harwich Life-boat ran down within a quarter of was eventually reached shortly after a mile of her and then saw the Clacton 8 P.M., where the men were looking Life-boat'-draw out from under the lee forward to some dry clothes and some of the wreck. She ran down and her food. Coxswain spoke the Coxswain of the The Honorary Secretary at Harwich Clacton Boat, who reported that all were was immediately on the spot to receive safe, and that he was proceeding to the men. He reported that the Harwich Clacton. Life-boat was away after a wreck on The George Hounsfield then reached off the Pye Sands, that the Clacton Life- into the Swin, under the lee of the boat had also had a call and was away Barrow Sand, where she spoke a Ger- on service, and that there was another man steamboat, bound down, and asked wreck on the Maplin Sands and he had for a tow. The German, however, took no boat to send. He had tried to get in no notice. There were three steamboats touch by telegram with the Honorary riding with two anchors down in the Secretary at Aldeburgh, the late Mr. Swin, waiting for the snow to clear before James Osborne, but he had been unable proceeding. The Life-boat managed to to do so. He besought the Coxswain get within speaking distance of one of and Crew to set out again for the wreck them, the Paradox, of Goole, hailed the on the Maplins. They had not had time bridge, and found that she was bound to change or even to get any food, but north. The snow clearing, the Paradox FEBRUARY, 1931] THE LIFEBOAT. 225

CHARLES WARD, SECOND TOM WARD. COXSWAIN.

HARRY PALLANT. TOM CABLE. Son of Rodney Pallant, the Coxswain.

Four of the Five Survivors of the Aldeburgh Crew of 1881.

The photographs were taken by Mr. S. C. F. Gooding, Honorary Treasurer of the Aldeburgh Branch. 226 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. got her anchors and took the Life-boat time—except for the hour or so ashore in tow up to abreast of the Aldeburgh at Harwich—her Crew had been in an Napes. The tow was slipped about two open Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, in miles off shore, and the wind being still an easterly gale, with snow squalls. easterly the Coxswain up foresail and During that time the George Houns- bore away for the home Station. It was field had travelled 25 sea miles to the just coming dark, about 4 p.m., and he Long Sand, and 21 back to Harwich. was warned off by signals, as the seas On leaving Harwich, in search of the were very heavy on the shore and it was second wreck, she travelled 24 miles to considered too rough for a safe landing. the Swin Middle Light Vessel, where she However, the Crew were by this time had tried to get the bearings of the utterly exhausted and could not have wreck, and from there to the Maplin, near carried on to Harwich; so, in spite of which she had lain all night, and home the warning, the Coxswain put his to Aldeburgh, was another 50 sea miles. drogue overboard and ran for the shore, Altogether, in those thirty hours, she where, after all, he managed safely to had travelled 120 sea miles. beach the boat. There are still alive from this original 120 Sea Miles. crew Charles Ward (Second Coxswain), It was now the evening of 7th Janu- Tom Ward, Tom Cable, Harry Pallant ary. The George Hounsfield had been and Jim Hurrey. Only last year two away from her Station on this work for others, James Cable and John Green, thirty hours.* For the whole of that passed away.f * The Ramsgate Life-boat was out for 26 t Of the Ramsgate Crew the only survivor hours. is Charles Verrion.

National Safety Week. THE National Safety Week Council, on Last year the Institution invited which the Institution is represented, is the Honorary Secretaries of Life-boat arranging to hold its second Safety Stations, wherever possible, to arrange Week from llth May to 16th May next. for their monthly or quarterly exercises The object of the Week is to arouse the of the Life-boats to take place during public to the need of additional effort to the Week, and the same request is made reduce the heavy loss of life from to them this year, as the Institution accidents of all kinds, and the Council is feels that everything possible should be able to report that as a result of the first done during this Week to bring home " Safety Week," held last year, there to the public what the Life-boat Service was a marked reduction in the number does to ensure safety at sea. of accidents.

New Vice-Presidents. THE Committee of Management have Brooke, Isle of Wight, Life-boat for over appointed the following to be Vice- thirty-five years ; the Right Hon. the Presidents of the Institution, and they Lord Southborough, P.C., G.C.B., have accepted the appointment: The G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I., Chair- Right Hon. the Viscount Grey of Fallo- man of the Civil Service Life-boat den, E.G., P.C., D.C.L., D.L.; Major- Fund ; the Rev. the Earl of Devon, General the Right Hon. John E. President of the Exeter Branch of Bernard Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., who the Institution; and the Hon. George has been a member of the Committee of Colville, Deputy-Chairman of the Management for twenty-eight years, Committee of Management since and a member of the Crew of the 1923. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 227

Foreign Life-boat Services. II. The United States (State Service. not only admit the inefficiency of a Established 1848). number of its Life-boats, but should Since the publication of our extensive apparently feel impelled to utter a most note on this Service in the November earnest appeal for help in this predica- issue of The Lifeboat we have received ment. Our knowledge of the internal the Annual Report of the U.S. Treasury working of the machinery of the Civil for 1930, which provides two matters Service of the U.S.A., and of the weight of interest to supplement that note. which just sentiment on a matter of Eight more 36 feet 6 inch. Motor Life- national and international importance boats have been added to the 104 of may carry with the State in that great this type already on the coast, five of democracy, is insufficient to enable us them having reached their destination to hazard a guess as to what effect this " after travelling many hundreds of appeal is likely to have ; and, indeed, miles under their own power in excellent to be sure whether we are not witness- condition without experiencing any ing iere an appeal from the narrow breakdowns or trouble " ; and twelve limitations laid down by a Treasury, more of these boats are to be built in compelled to ration each department of 1931. There is here a striking simi- State, to the generosity of the mil- larity in the development of the smaller lionaire who so often plays the part of type of Motor Life-boats in the British the deus ex machina in American affairs. and the U.S. Service, a type of which, But two points emerge from a con- however, the latter has long since made sideration of the passage we have very extensive use. quoted. One is the admiration which But the most remarkable feature of we feel for the fins courage and seaman- the Report, especially for British readers, like directness with which the Comman- is that which contains at once an admis- dant, Admiral Billard, states his convic- sion and an appeal. The admission, tions as to the needs of the Service. The almost startling in its courageous can- other is the feeling that, in spite of the dour, is that " The Life-boats in a difficulties with which the Institution is number of the States are very old, and faced in securing the funds needed for are giving out to a perilous degree. the efficient maintenance of the Service, They have battled with the storms for the voluntary system, in which it. was many years, in fact, too long for safety. the pioneer over a hundred years ago, It is imperative that they be replaced." and which has been followed by the And this reference to what is described great majority of those countries which as "-this unfortunate situation" is fol- have established a Life-boat Service, is lowed by the statement: " Then there the one best suited to the provision of are new stations to be supplied, and that service, at any rate, in the case of a other stations of strategic importance maritime people. not now having Life-boats that should have them if the best interests of com- Holland (Voluntary. Established 1821). merce and humanity are to be served. As many of our readers are aware, It is to these ends that this earnest, soli- Holland, to its lasting credit, was the citous appeal is submitted." The italics first country to follow the lead of are ours, and we do not think we shall Britain in the organisation of a Life- be accused of over-emphasis. For it is boat Service. Indeed, while the Institu- surely remarkable that a State Depart- tion was formally founded on 4th March, ment, entrusted by the people of the 1824, as the result of Sir William United States with the provision and Hillary's appeal to the nation in 1823, maintenance of the Life-boat service, a number of public-spirited men formed and spending thereon three or four the two Dutch Societies in November times the sum expended by the Royal of the same year. The North and South National Life-boat Institution, should Holland Society was founded at Amster- 228 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. dam; another Association, the South also be borne in mind that at the short Holland Society for the Rescue of the distance of 300 metres and less a Life- Shipwrecked, was formed at Rotterdam boat will generally be able to render only a few weeks later. It may perhaps effective service. seem regrettable that a work so truly As it is, perhaps, not obvious to the national in its scope and purpose should layman that there is no use in establish- be controlled by two separate organisa- ing a line connexion at a greater dis- tions, but it is gratifying to know that tance than 300 metres, it is worth they have worked in complete harmony pointing out that at greater distances during the century of their existence, the sagging of the heavy line from which this being facilitated by the fact that the weight of a drowning person is the North and South Holland Society, suspended becomes so great that he is limiting its operations to a sphere less pulled through the water, and this extensive than its name implies, pro- process, if carried out over a long dis- vides the Service from the northernmost tance, is fatal to the " rescued." Cases part of the coast as far as Scheveningen, may, nevertheless, occur in which air- while the South Holland Society ad- craft might be able to render good ministers the Service southwards from service, and the Dutch Societies are that point. therefore grateful for the co-operation The Annual Reports of the two which they have received from the Air Societies for the year 1929 give ample Defence Department, which has given evidence of progress in every direction, approval to instructions issued to the and notably in the development of Societies' representatives on the coast, technical efficiency, whether in the con- whereby the latter are authorised, sub- struction of motor boats, the solution ject to certain conditions, to call in the of the problem of launching boats on aid of aircraft, if necessary, for the a flat beach, the adoption of wireless saving of shipwrecked persons. telephony, or, finally, the examination The Report of the North and South of the possibilities of co-operation be- Holland Society adds the following tween aircraft and Life-boats in the comments :— rescue of life from shipwreck. " Our local Committees and repre- This latter problem led to a joint sentatives will, however, not proceed to meeting of the Committees of the two call in the aid of an aeroplane unless it Societies with the Military Air Depart- has been ascertained that this is really ment at Amsterdam in February, 1929. necessary. They will have to bear in This meeting came to the conclusion mind that the aircraft coming to their that the services of aircraft can be assistance will not only have to fly to utilised in two ways, namely :— the point where aid is required against 1. For the purpose of taking observa- a very severe storm, but will also have tions, and to land later on in the same severe 2. For establishing a line connexion weather. between the stranded ship and the shore, " The daring achievement of airmen which latter possibility had already in the case of the Salento on the 26th been proved by a trial near the Hook of November, 1928, has rightly aroused Holland. the admiration of many ; during the As, however, a line connexion be- severe storm which was raging at the tween the ship and the shore is useless time, they established a connexion, and when the distance exceeds 300 metres, the Italian Government recognised the and as at that distance it is generally courageous act of Flight Captain van possible to establish communication Weerden Poelman, First Flight- without the aid of an aeroplane, either Lieutenant van Dorst, Flight-Sergeant by firing a line from the ship to the Bosch and Flight-Sergeant-Major v. d. shore or from the shore to the ship, it is Hoek. But they and the persons who, improbable that the aid of an aeroplane though unacquainted with the needs of will often have to be called in, in order the Life-boat Service, called them up, to establish a line connexion. It must did not know that to establish a con- FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 229 nexion with the Salento, which, lay its tractor is, therefore, a problem which 1,200 metres from the coast, could lead is still under consideration." to no result. The knowledge thus gained is, however, now in the hands of WIRELESS TELEPHONY. our local Committees and representa- tives, and we therefore hope that if the In view of the Institution's adoption aid of aircraft is asked for. it will be of wireless in the case of Motor Life- requisitioned by our local Committees boats at remote and isolated stations, and representatives." the following from the Report of the North and South Holland Society will BEACH MOTOR LIFE-BOATS : GIRDER be read with interest:—• TRACKS. " In considering the equipment of The North and South Holland Society two of our Motor Life-boats, the has decided to introduce the beach Brandaris, of Terschelling, and the Motor Life-boat, of the type which is in Dorus Rijkers, of Helder, with wireless use in the Danish Life-boat Service, telephony receiving installations, we namely, a wooden Life-boat provided approached the Director of the Govern- with a 25 h.p. petrol motor, the pro- ment Testing Station for Coastal Light- peller of which turns in a tunnel ing at Scheveningen, with a view to formed by two heavy wooden keels. being included in the arrangement This Life-boat weighs about 4 tons. which is in operation between wireless The character of the coast in Denmark telephony transmitting and receiving enables these Boats to be launched stations on lighthouses and lightships. without the use of a carriage. That is We received the greatest assistance not possible in Holland. The beach from the Director of the said Testing Motor Life-boat must, therefore, be Station, Mr. P. van Braam van Vloten, conveyed along the beach on a carriage, and Mr. Ir. P. J. G. van Diggelen, and which demands great pulling power also from the Direction of Pilotage. As when the conditions are unfavourable. a result, the two Motor Life-boats " In consequence, the Society is now referred to are provided with telephony engaged in carrying out trials for the receiving sets, which are made in launching off a carriage, which is in- accordance with the instructions of the creased to the desired weight by means Government Testing Station, in a very of iron, and the rear axles of which are substantial design by the Nederlandsche provided with the girder tracks of the Seintoestellenfabriek. They are chiefly ' Roadless Traction, Limited,' of Houns- N.S.F.4 sets with flexible wiring, and low, which have been found satisfactory are provided with an on and off switch, by the English Life-boat Society for a regulating resistance and a built-in the -transportation of heavy boats. voltmeter for adjusting the filament " This arrangement ensures only very voltage of the receiving valves. The slight subsidence even on soft ground. set is watertight and arranged in a For these trials we obtained a set of the metal box. The wave-length range is girder tracks in question. In places 150-300 metres. where, owing to the absence of horses " Alongside the Coxswain, near the or the difficulty in obtaining them steering wheel, a ' Brown ' loud speaker quickly, motor tractors are necessary, is fitted, protected against water; these will probably have to be more below deck the use of headphones makes powerful for launching the beach Motor it possible to listen-in when the sounds Life-boats than those which we now on deck are not clear enough. use. For this reason we are on the " The price of these sets, of special lookout for a tractor of this kind. The design, and without the loud speakers is English Life-boat Society has had a about £90 per installation. tractor constructed for the same pur- " It is gratifying to report that these pose according to its own specifications. two installations, which, together with The acquisition of a beach Motor Life- further accessories, will cost about £250, boat with the requisite pulling power for are being paid for by the sum contri- 230 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. buted by pupils of secondary schools in on the part of the Coxswain in avoiding the Netherlands, and handed over to the turning the Boat in the breakers, the North and South Holland Life-boat last attempt to run before the latter Society in December, 1929. proved fatal to the Boat. She was struck " The wireless telephony installations broadside on and capsized. render it possible for the Brandaris and " No definite reason for her being thus the Dorus Rijkers, after leaving their har- struck broadside on can be given, and bours, to receive reports from the Coast- it is a question whether it was due to guard Station which is in telephonic the violence of the elements, either communication with the Local Com- alone or in conjunction with a sudden mittee of the Life-boat Society. The defect in the engine room, or the steering adoption of wireless telephony on our gear, or an accident to the Coxswain. Life-boats may result in the rescue of " The examination of the Life-boat, shipwrecked persons who might other- carried out by the Navigation Inspec- wise be lost. It may also prevent a tion Department, gave no indication of Life-boat making unnecessary trips. any defect in the equipment or the "As a Life-boat may also wish to Boat's engine. send a report to shore, a transmitting " The excellent service which she and receiving installation for wireless had rendered during many years with telephony will be fitted on board the her sister ship the President ran Heel, latsst Life-boat, the Neeltje Jacob and under very dangerous conditions, is also on board the InsuKnde. a proof of the sound construction of this first type of mechanically-driven THE WRECK OF THE " PRINS DER Life-boats, at a time when internal NEDERLANDEN." combustion engines had not yet been The South Holland Society's Report fully developed. for 1929 contains a very interesting [The Prins der Nederlanden was built reference to the disaster which overtook in 1908. Her late Coxswain, who was the Steam Life-boat Prins der Neder- drowned in the disaster in January, landen on the 16th January, 1929, in 1929, took part in the rescue of the the attempt to save the crew of the crews of four British vessels, 72 lives Latvian steamship Valka, which had in all.] stranded on the Maasvlakte. " Nevertheless, from the explanations " The eye-witnesses on the Valka furnished by Professor Vossnack, it is were too far away from the spot where evident to us that according to the the Life-boat capsized to make any more recent ideas regarding the con- accurate observation—J to| mile accord- struction of Life-boats, greater sea- ing to the Captain—and in addition worthiness is secured by the present they themselves were going through rounder cross-section of the Koningin anxious hours on the ship, which was Wilhelmina type of motor boat. The being battered by the breakers. enormous dynamic moment which arises " Nevertheless, interest attaches to the and promotes capsizing if the Boat turns statement of the Captain that Coxswain broadside to the surf has less effect in a Van der Klooster twice succeeded, by Boat designed on these lines. In stsaming against the high breakers, in addition, two motor-driven propellers getting close to the ship. On both revolving in tunnels considerably en- occasions it was impossible to establish hance the safety of the Boat.* any permanent connexion with the ship owing to the violence with which the * This fact was fully established by the exhaustive experiments carried out for the boat was thrown up and down. After French Life-boat Service by the Director of these two attempts, deeper water was the Naval Testing Docks in Paris, and carefully sought farther out to enable the Boat described in the paper submitted by La Societe to turn, and, by running before the Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages to the Second International Conference on the breakers, to get behind the sandbank World's Life-boat Service, held in Paris in again, so as to repeat the attempt. 1928. It may be added that the results thus Notwithstanding the good seamanship established by observation and experiments FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 231 " As a result of these considerations, screw boats, 5 steel single-screw boats, orders were given for the construction and 5 decked wooden boats; and of two twin-screw Motor Life-boats, for there are 15 wooden open boats, all which Professor Vossnack undertook to with motors installed. Three new open prepare the plans and the specification, Motor Boats have been placed at North and also to give his general supervision Sea Stations, and a decked twin-screw to the construction. Motor Boat, the Bremen, at Norderney. [These two Boats, President Jan Lcls She is a 49 feet by 12 feet 6 inches Boat and President J. V. Wierdxma, went to with a steel (Siemens-Martin) hull. the Hook of Holland in August of last The propellers are protected by tunnels, year, and the second Steam Life-boat as in the case of the Institution's Motor was then withdrawn.] Life-boats. The Boat has numerous " Near the Signal Station at the Hook watertight compartments. It is pro- of Holland a powerful military search- vided with electric light and a wireless light has now been erected, by which telephony apparatus, with a radius of ships stranded at the entrance to the fifty miles. There is also an electric New Waterway can, if necessary, be lit searchlight, electric foghorn, and a life- up at night in order to assist the rescue saving net. The exhaust of the two work." motors passes through the iron mast. This Boat replaces the single-screw Boat Germany (Established as State Service, 1852. previously placed at that Station, which Voluntary since 1865). has been transferred to Travemiinde, The Annual General Meeting of the where it will lie afloat in complete Society was held on 13th June last, readiness to render prompt service to when it was reported that in the casualties to aircraft in connexion with previous year thirty-three persons had the big Flying Station at that port. been rescued from shipwreck in con- The new Boats are provided with Diesel nexion with eight casualties, thirty of engines. the rescued persons being saved by the The engines of the twin-screw Motor Life-boats and three by the Rocket Life-boat Bremen develop 144-146 h.p., Apparatus. It should be noted that in and give a speed of 11 knots. Germany, as in the United States and It is interesting to note that the in France, the same organization German Society, in spite of the meagre- supplies the Life-boat Service and the ness of its funds, thought it worth while Rocket Apparatus. This is indeed the to send models of its newest Motor case with most of the Foreign Life-boat Life-boats to the Antwerp Exhibition. Services. The Report also refers to the adoption The total number of lives rescued by of the line-throwing pistol, invented by the instrumentality of the German Mr. Sander, an engineer. This line- Society since its foundation in 1865 is throwing pistol appears to have given so 5,236." much satisfaction that the Society pro- There are now 115 Stations, 2 having pose to substitute it for the Rocket been closed in the previous year. Of Apparatus on the coast as and when the total number, 76 are in the Baltic, occasion arises. and 39 in, the North Sea. Sixty-one The German Society now has twenty- Stations are provided with both Life- four Station Branches, and thirty-eight boat and Rocket Apparatus ; there are Financial Branches. A considerable 39 Stations with a Life-boat only, and part of the revenue is raised by what 15 with the Rocket Apparatus only. may be called Flag Days; but the Of the 115 Boats there are now 27 greater proportion of the support comes Motor Life-boats, 12 of which are from shipping and shipbuilding centres. decked boats, namelv, 2 steel twin- The Report deplores the fact that although considerable progress has been with models in a tank were confirmed by the practical tests carried out by the Institution made in technical development, there in comparative trials of single-screw and twin- was a fall in the number of subscribers. screw Motor Life-boats —Ed. The Life-boat. It concludes with an appeal to the 232 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. public to help the Society to maintain Danish, 2 Russian, 1 Austrian, and 3 of its'great humane work on the basis of the United States. the voluntary self-sacrifice of the Crews and the voluntary contributions of Belgium (State Service. Established 1832). public-spirited men and women. During 1929 the Belgian Life-boat Service rendered services to five vessels, Spain (Voluntary, with a Subsidy from the two being Dutch and three Belgian, and State. Established 1880). rescued 66 lives. The Life-boats which At the present time the Society carried out these rescues were those possesses 59 Stations. The latter com- at Ostend, Middelkerke and Zeebrugge. prise 48 unsinkable self-righting and The Belgium Fleet now has two self-draining boats, of which 16 have Motor Life-boats, which were built by a motors on improved systems. It has German firm in 1926. These boats are, also 81 line-throwing apparatuses of the with slight modifications, the same as Spandau, Boxer, Lyle, Dawson and our own Watson Cabin Life-boat, com- Evans systems. plete plans of which were supplied by The Superior Council of the Society the Institution to the Belgian Marine has, since its foundation in 1880,recorded Administration. It is particularly in- and given awards for the saving of more teresting to note that these boats were than 12,000 lives, and presented 18 Gold built in Germany as part of the War Medals, 998 Silver Medals, 2,785 Bronze Reparations, and we doubt if any pay- Medals, and £7,155, exclusive of the ment made under this head has been amount of the monetary awards emana- more appropriate, and more likely to ting from special foundations. help in healing the wounds of war, than It has, since its foundation in 1907, res- these two Lifa-boats, provided by an ex- cued, by means of its boats and life-lines, enemy country in order to help Belgium the crews of 120 sea-going vessels, of in saving those, of whatever nationality which 15 were English, 10 French, 7 they may be, who are in peril of ship- Italian, 1 Portuguese, 6 Norwegian, 1 wreck on her coasts.

The Storeyard's Children's Party. THE seventh Christmas party, given by child was presented by Father Christmas the staff of the Storeyard at Broomfield with a bag of fruit and sweets and a toy. Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff At the end Captain G. H. Bevan, at Headquarters, took place on 20th O.B.E., R.N., Deputy Chief Inspector December at the Bromley Public Hall. for Stores, who has now reached the Four days before this a tea was given to retiring age, was presented with a letter 240 children at the special school for the from the children of Broomfield Street, defective in Piggott Street. At the Poplar, expressing their sorrow that he Bromley Public Hall 170 children were was leaving the Institution. A small present. Besides the tea there was a boy and girl then presented a bouquet concert and community singing, dancing of flowers to Mrs. Bevan and a fountain- and a gymnastic display, and every pen to Captain Bevan.

Obituary. SINCE the last issue of The Lifeboat was Secretary of the Sennen Cove Branch, published, the Institution has lost by and Coxswain William Johnston of death a number of its friends and Stromness. It is hoped in the next workers, among them Sir Charles Wilson, Chairman of the Leeds Branch, Colonel issue to give an account of their work Cornish, for many years Honorary for the Institution. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 233

The Twenty Branches with the Highest Collections, 1929-30. WE publish below a table showing the and Salford Branch. It should, how- twenty Branches which made the largest ever, be repeated that the City of contributions to the Institution during London in the list is the City proper, the financial year ending the 30th Sep- the "square mile" within the original tember, 1930. Fourteen are English, boundaries, and also the Borough of four Scottish, and two Irish. Finsbury. The whole of Greater Lon- The total sum raised by these twenty don, which includes a number of Branches was £50,803, which is £8,303 Branches, collected £20,737. more than in 1929. This is a very The other changes in the list are not notable increase. On the other hand, great. Nottingham and District de- in 1929. a contribution of £745 was serves hearty congratulations on appear-

Population Amount Position Branch. County. of Branch Collection. per last area. head. year. £ fi. 1 Glasgow and District . Lanark 1,060,000 13,519 3-06 9 2 City of London * .... London 8,987 1 3 Manchester, Salford & Uist. . Lanes. 1,279,000 3,739 0-70 3 4 Liverpool and District Lanes. 955,000 3,450 0-87 4 .5 Birmingham and District . Warwick 1,007,000 2,503 0-60 5 6 Edinburgh, Leith and Granton Edinburgh 512,000 2,367 1-11 7 7 Isle of Wight f .... Hants. 94,150 1,960 15 8 Bradford and District Yorks. 394,700 1,760 1-07 6 9 Eastbourne f Sussex 66634 1 630 8 10 Belfast Antrim 415,151 1 909 0-70 9 11 Dundee Forfar 196,974 1,179 1-44 12 12 Leeds and District Yorks. 600,000 1,130 0-45 10 13 Dublin Dublin 431,000 1 064 0-59 13 14 Bristol Glos. 390,000 1 063 ((•65 11 15 Aberdeen Aberdeenshire 188,000 1,015 1-30 18 16 Southampton and District Hants. 235,600 1,014 1-03 19 17 Poole, Bournemouth, etc. •(• Dorset 146,200 925 14 18 Nottingham and District . Notts. 350,000 850 0-58 19 Oxford Oxford 57,100 766 3--'-> 20 Margate | Kent 46,500 673 17

Clacton-on-Sea 16 Exeter . 20

* Fluctuating population, so that no calculation per head is possible. t Resident population. This is greatly increased by the influx of visitors all through the season. needed to get a place among the first ing in the list for the first time, and twenty, while last year the twentieth Oxford makes a welcome reappearance place was taken by a Branch which after being out of the list for two years. contributed £673. This is the lowest These two Branches have displaced contribution by the twentieth Branch Clacton-on-Sea and Exeter, which were since 1926. sixteenth and twentieth respectively last Reference has already been made to year. the magnificent achievement of Glasgow The Isle of Wight, including a num- in beating the City of London Branch by ber of sub-Branches, which are fully .over £4,000, and taking the first place in organised units, has risen from fifteenth the list. This is the second time that to seventh. This is the biggest rise, and the City of London has lost its place at is due to the very successful " All Island the top. The first occasion was in 1924, Fete," which was held in the summer. the Centenary year of the Institution, Southampton has risen three places. when it was displaced by the Manchester Bradford, which was second in 1922, and 234 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. sixth in 1929, is now eighth ; Bristol has easier it is to get a high collection per gone down three places, and Leeds two. head. This fact emphasises the achieve- It will also be noticed that there are a ment of Glasgow, which, with a popula- number of cities and big ports which do tion of over a million, has collected more not appear among the first twenty. than 3d. per head. In the City, with its fluctuating In order to appreciate the significance population, and in the big seaside of the '' per head " figure, it should be resorts, where there is a great influx of remembered that the Institution needs summer visitors, any calculation of the annually, in order to provide and amount per head is impossible. Of maintain the Service, £300.000, and that those Branches in the list where such a this represents \\d. per head of the calculation can be made, Oxford comes population of Great Britain and Ireland. first with nearly 3^d. a head—a very fine achievement. It is worth recalling 11 per Head. that in 1928, the last occasion when It will be seen, therefore, that every Oxford was among the first twenty, it Branch should aim at getting at least had the best contribution per head, with Id. per head of the population within its just over 3Jrf. Glasgow comes second area ; that none should be satisfied with with just over 3d. per head, and five less than Hd., and that those large towns others have contributed over Id. per which raise more than this have reason head—Edinburgh, Leith and Granton, to congratulate themselves on the Bradford and District, Dundee, Aber- effectiveness of their methods of appeal, deen, and Southampton and District. and to be proud of the generosity with Last year only four of the twenty-five which their citizens have responded to Branches raised over Id. per head. This the appeal of the Service. But, as year the number is seven. stated above, it must be borne in mind Many Branches which do not appear that it is much more difficult to achieve in the list have a higher per head contri- this result in great cities, with a huge bution than any of the twenty, for, of working-class population, than in small course, the smaller the population, the towns and seaside resorts.

Scotland's Achievement. OXE of the notable Life-boat events of and Scotland has now much more than 1930 was the great increase in the doubled her contribution of five years amount contributed to the Institution ago. During the four years of the Coun- by Scotland. In a year in which of the cil's work the average annual contribu- eight districts into which Great Britain tion has been £17.193. During the four and Ireland are divided for the purpose previous years it was £11,308, so that the of the Institution's appeals, four showed average increase is over 50 per cent. an increase, and the other four a decrease, Under the constitution of the Scottish Scotland increased her contribution by Council, every Branch which remits over £12,000, or nearly 80 per cent. Her over £100 is entitled to have one repre- contribution in 1929 was under £16,000. sentative on the Council, and a second In 1930 it was over £28,000. Of this representative if it remits over £200. sum over £9,000 was in the form of The number of Branches entitled to special donations, but, even without representation has increased in the past these, the increase was over £3,000, four years from 18 to 34, and the which is more than £1,000 higher than number of representatives from 29 to 47. the increase of any other District. As these figures show, many Branches In 1926, the year before the Scottish have contributed towards the notable Life-boat Council was formed, under the development in Scotland, but the chief Chairmanship of the Duke of Montrose, credit belongs to Glasgow. Its record last Scotland contributed £10,722. Each year, and, in fact, during the past four vear since then has shown an increase, years, is unequalled by any Branch in FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 235 the history of-the Institution. In 1926, buted £13,519. In so doing, it much the year before the formation of the more than doubled its previous record, Scottish Council, Glasgow contributed took first place in the list of Branches, £2,391, being fourth in the Institution's the City of London being second with list of Branches, with the City of London, £8,987, and contributed a larger sum Manchester and Liverpool occupying the than had ever been received from one first three places. The next year Branch, with the exception of Man- showed an increase of over £1,000, the chester's contribution of £14,854 in next a further increase of over £600, and 1924, which included a sum of over the next a further increase of over £10,000 raised as a special Cente- £1,000. These increases brought the nary gift to the Institution. On this contribution of Glasgow in 1929 to notable achievement, Glasgow, and £5,152, and the Branch then took the the whole of Scotland, deserves the second place in the list, the first place hearty congratulations of all Life-boat being occupied by the City of London, workers. with £9,930.* In 1930, Glasgow contri- The whole of Greater London, which includes * The City of London Branch covers only a number of Branches, rai ed £20,030 in 1929, the original City and the Borough of Finsbury. and £20,737 in 1930.

Donation from the Scottish Fisheries. IT will be remembered that during the Scottish cities opened a public subscrip- terrible gales in the winter of 1929 tion list to help the fishermen to replace to 1930, great damage was done to their losses. After all claims had been the Scottish fishing fleet. On one day, met, there remained a balance of llth November, 1929, it was estimated £135 9s. 5d. This balance has been that the fleet, when fishing off the East handed over to the Institution by the Anglian coast, lost over 27,000 nets.* Fishery Board of Scotland, and the At the request of the Secretary of State Board wrote that it did this " in view for Scotland the Lord Provosts of the of the intimate connexion the Institu- tion has with the life of Scottish fisher- * Sec The Lifeboat for March, 1930. men."

District Conferences. Meeting of Workers from North and Mid-Wales. A CONFERENCE of Life-boat workers come, and then gave a brief survey of from Branches and Ladies' Life-boat the work of the Institution. The Dis- Guilds in North and Mid-Wales was trict Organising Secretary thanked the held at Llandudno on the 22nd October, Delegates for the splendid work which 1930. Delegates from ten Branches and they were doing, and invited their help eight Ladies' Life-boat Guilds were wel- in giving him the names of anybody comed by the Chairman of the Urban who would assist in starting a Ladies' District Council at the opening of the Life-boat Guild in any of the following Conference, and, in the unavoidable places: Ruthin, Ruabon, St. Asaph, absence of Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Newport (Salop), Shifnal, Bishop's Chairman of the Committee of Manage- Castle, Ledbury, Ross and Flint. ment, Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secre- Mr. G. A. Humphreys, J.P., Chairman tary of the Institution, presided, sup- of the Llandudno Branch, proposed ported by the District Organising that the Conference should record in Secretary. its minutes an expression of their very Mr. Shee thanked the Chairman of high appreciation of the services ren- the Council for his presence and wel- dered by Mr. Shee to the Life-boat 236 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY,1931. Service during the past twenty years, Branch there were Whis.t and Bridge and a similar resolution of appreciation Drives, Dances, Bazaars, Concerts, of the services of Captain Howard F. J. Carol Singing, etc., etc. For individual Rowley, the recently retired Chief members of the Guild there were private Inspector of Life-boats. Both resolu- collecting boxes and collecting cards. tions were enthusiastically carried. In The leaflet provided by the Institution, reply Mr. Shee thanked the Delegates, with a small envelope attached, for and said he would have much pleasure House-to-House Collections had been in conveying to Captain Rowley the found by a number of delegates to be tribute to his services which had been one of the most successful methods of proposed and so well received. collecting. A discussion then took place on With regard to Life-boat Days, it branch work and methods of publicity was agreed that a day should be held and propaganda, during which the wherever permission could be obtained, following points were made :— because the people who gave on these On the question of " What constitutes occasions could not be reached by other a successful Branch ? " it had been means. Early application for a definite found that the aim should be to have a date was considered very advisable, and good working Committee and a strong experience had shown the value of Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and to arrange getting clergy of all denominations to regular sources which could be relied refer to the Institution and its work in upon to raise a definite income each the sermon on the Sunday before Life- year. The basis of all Branches should boat Day. be annual subscriptions, because this Other points dealt with were : — source of income was not affected, as The value of the Essay Competition were Life-boat Days, by a bad season at all over the country. seaside places or bad weather. • The importance of sending the Journal to contributors of 10s. and Principal Methods of Appeal. upwards. A general discussion elicited the fact The value of placing out collecting that Annual Subscriptions, Life-boat boxes in hotels, shops, etc. Day, House-to-House Collections and The facilities for prompt and economic Dinner-table Collections were regarded printing at Headquarters. as the principal forms of appeal which The importance of em^ hasising the could be carried out by a successful cost of the Institution's administration Branch. It was agreed that a great —under 5 per cent. factor in most of these efforts was the The value of Branch Annual Meetings. collector, and a band of enthusiastic and The value of using the films which willing collectors was essential. were provided free for the use of On the question of appeals for annual Branches, and also the lantern slides subscriptions, the value of the personal with their accompanying lecture. touch was strongly urged, and it was During the Conference the attention agreed that a postal, appeal, if sent out of Delegates was particularly drawn to on the right lines, could be made effec- Leaflet No. 1, published by the Institu- tive. The importance of sending out tion, which gave hints and suggestions applications for the renewal of all con- on the organisation of appeals and tributions in a systematic way was Special Efforts, and also to Leaflet emphasised. No. 10, which gave a complete list of The great value of the Ladies' Life- the literature and stores which were boat Guild was stressed by many available for the use of Branches in Branches, and the numerous ways in carrying out appeals. which the Guild, as a whole, and the In the afternoon the delegates went members of the Guild, as individuals, to the Palladium Theatre and saw the could help the work were dealt with. new Life-boat Film for Wales. This Apart from the efforts already men- filTi, which will be available for the use tioned in connexion with a successful of Branches, shows two Welsh Life-boat FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 237 Stations, two Irish Stations on the other in connexion with the Ladies' Life-boat side of the Irish Sea, and an English Guild. Station on the other side of the Bristol Specimens of Literature, Badges, Channel. It is in two reels, one taking Souvenirs, Bunting, Light-weight Oil- fifteen minutes and the other twelve skins for the use of collectors, etc., etc., minutes. The Delegates were enthu- were displayed and were examined by siastic in their approbation of the film. Delegates during the day. At the afternoon session Mr. Shee Votes of thanks to the Chairman and presented the Certificate of Service | speakers, to the Chairman of the Urban awarded to William Williams, ex- District Council for the loan of the Coxswain of the Llanddulas Life-boat, Council Chambers, and to Mr. G. A. and the Gold Brooch awarded to Mrs. Humphreys, J.P., for very kindly enter- Marks, of Llandudno, in recognition taining the Delegates to tea, brought of her long and valued co-operation | a verv successful Conference to a close.

The Royal Life-boat Matinee. THEIR Majesties the King and Queen, Ambassadors, the Norwegian and Patrons of the Institution, H.R.H. the Danish Ministers, and the Mayors and Prince of Wales, K.G., President, and Mayoresses of Westminster, Finsbury. H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Islington, Holborn and St. Pancras. Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Among those who took tickets were the Guild, attended the fourth annual Life- Belgian and Japanese Ambassadors, the boat Matinee in London, which was held German Embassy, and the Maharaja on 7th November at the London of Bikaner, the Maharaja of Jammu and Hippodrome. Kashmir, the Maharaja of Baroda and The theatre was lent to the Institution the Sultan of Jodhpur, who were in by Mr. R. H. Gillespie, Managing London attending the Indian Round Director of Moss Empires, Ltd., and the Table Conference. sale of tickets was in the hands of A variety programme was given, and a special committee of which the among those taking part in it were Marchioness of Londonderry, D.B.E., a i Miss Gladys Cooper, Sir Gerald du Vice-President of the Ladies' Life-boat Maurier, Mr. Henry Ainley. Miss Beatrice Guild, was chairman. Lillie, Miss Isolde Menges, and Mr. Their Majesties were received by the George Robey. To all who so generously Prince of Wales, Princess Louise, gave their services the Institution would Duchess of Argyll, the Duchess of Port- like publicly to offer its warmest thanks. land? a Vice-Patron of the Guild, the The programme also included " Heroes Marchioness of Londonderry, Sir God- of the Sea/' a sound film of the Life-boat frey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Com- Service, taken by British International mittee of Management, the Hon. George Pictures, Ltd., and presented to the Colville, Deputy-Chairman, the Mayor Institution by Mr. John Maxwell, the of Westminster (Captain J. F. C. Ben- Chairman of the Company. It had not nett), and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., previously been shown in public. Secretary. Bouquets were presented to The programme sellers were boys the Queen and Princess Louise, Duchess from the training ship Stork, in charge of Argyll, and, in the interval, Mr. R. H. of Captain C. Gordon Grant. R.N. Gillespie, Managing Director of Moss The Hippodrome has accommodation for 1,587 people, and every seat was Empires, Ltd., and Mr. Frank Bcor, the sold, many applications for tickets Manager of the Theatre, were presented having to be refused. The gross pro- to Their Majesties. ceeds were £1,542 15s. Id., and a message Among those who gave their patronage was received from the King and Queen to the Matinee were their Excellencies that they " had enjoyed the Matinee the French, Bslgian and Japanese immensely." 238 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931.

Buttons After All! IN the report of Life-boat Day in collection of small goods in the street, Greater London, in the last issue of The and the following conversation took Lifeboat, it was stated that for the first place. time no buttons had been found in the '' Are you collecting for the Life-boat, collecting boxes. But buttons were, Miss ? " after all, given for the help of the . . ~\Ties . ? J Service—but in a very different way. '' Well, I ain't got no blooming money, One of the collectors in St. Pancras but you saved my old man, so here's a tells us that she was stopped by an old packet of buttons. Sell 'em for the woman who was selling a miscellaneous Life-boat."

Life-boat Carol Singers. LAST Christmas a number of Branches which divided its proceeds—over £14— again arranged carol-singing parties. between the Institution and the Institu- East Grinstead (Sussex), which has been tion for the Blind. Other Branches most successful with its carol-singing for which went carol-singing were Crawley the past four Christmases, collected over and Three Bridges (Sussex), Lsather- £16 in two evenings, in spite of fog. head (Surrey), Tenterden (Kent), and Selsey and Bognor again had a party, Wolverhampton (Staffordshire).

Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management. Thursday, 21st August, 1930. G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I., Vice- Paid £22,113 5s. lid. for sundry charges in Presidents of the Institution. connexion with the construction of Life-boats, Decided that the 51-feet Motor Life-boats Life-boat Houses and Slipways, and the similar to the one stationed at Stromncss be maintenance of the various Life-boat establish- known in future as the Barnett (Stromness) ments. type. Decided to close the Worthing Life-boat Thursday, 18th September, 1939. Station. SIB GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair. Reported the receipt of the following special Passed a Vote of Thanks to H.R.H. the contribution? :— DUKE OF GLOUCESTER for attending the £ *. d. Inaugural Ceremony of the new Padstow White Star Lins Steamers' Charity Motor Life-boat Princess Mary, and naming Fund, Additional Donation . 100 0 0 the Boat on the 21st July. Sir Edmund Davis (Donation) . 26 5 0 Mr. H. W. Kolle (Additional Dona- Passed a Vote of Thanks to H.R.H. PRINCE tion) 25 0 0 GEORGE for attending the Inaugural Cere- Mr. F. A. Richards (Donation) . 25 0 0 monies of the Walton-on-the-Naze Motor Life- H.M.S. Queen KlizabM (Collection) 25 0 0 boat E.M.E.D., and the Clacton-on-Sea Motor Captain E. A. Craiv, M.C., K.E. Life-boat Edward J. Dresden, and naming the (DonaHon) . . . . 20 0 0 Boats on the 25th July. To be thanked. Reported the death of the Rt. Hon. the Paid £15,908 8s. 3d. for sundry charges in EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., V.D., who was for connexion with the construction of Life-boats, many years Chairman of the Institution, and Life-boathouses and Slipways, and the main- passed a Vote of Sympathy with his widow. tenance of the various Life-boat establish? Expressed deep regret at the death of His ments. Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., Directed that a Letter of Appreciation be a Vice-President of the Institution. sent to Mr. W. J. B. MONCAS, Honorary Secre- Appointed the Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE, the tary at Rosslare Harbour, for going out in the Rev. the Rt. Hon. the EARL OF DEVON, the Life-boat on service on the 18th August. Rt. Hon. VISCOUST GREY crp FALLODOHS, K.G., Voted £124 11s. to pay the expenses of the P.O., Major-General the Rt. Hon. JOHN E. following Life-boat services :— BERNARD SEELY, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., and July 5.—THE LONGHOPE Motor Life-boat the Rt. Hon. the LORD SOUTHBOROUGH, P.O., was launched at 4A.M. in fine weather, without FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 239 any wind and with a smooth sea, on receipt of engine trouble, and all her sails had been blown information from the Coastguard that a vessel away. The Life-boat accompanied both vessels was ashore on the Pentland Skerries, and to Ramsey Pier Head and then returned to firing rockets. With the full tide the position her Station, arriving there at 3 P.M.—Expenses, was reached within an hour, and the steam £5 13s. 6d. trawler Strathgyle, of Aberdeen, was found August 20.—THE MOELFRE Motor Life- aground, having stranded while bound from boat was launched at 12.15 A.M. in a moderate Aberdeen to the fishing grounds. Her crew of S.E. gale, with a very rough sea and rain, and nine were ready to leave, but as the tide rose landed the crew of three of the ketch Henrietta, the vessel refloated, and, although making of Kilkeel. The Henrietta, which was outward some water, was able to proceed to Wick under bound from Birkenhead with a cargo of coal, her own steam.—Expenses, £7 11s. had come to anchor off the east end of Moelfre August 2.—THE SOUTHEND-ON-SEA Island, but in the heavy weather her anchors Motor Life-boat saved the houseboat Diadem, had dragged and she was in danger of being of Faversham, and landed her five occupants. driven ashore. The Life-boat ran alongside About 8 P.M. it wets reported from the Pier and quickiy got the three men aboard, but it Head that a boat was in distress off Canvey was not possible to return to Moelfre, so the Island, and the Life-boat put out in a strong Boat put into Beaumaris, and was taken back southerly breeze with a rough sea. The to her Station at 11.30 the same morning.— Diadem was found bumping heavily on a sand- Expenses, £13 16s. bank. The owner, his wife and three children, August 21.—THE FILEY Life-boat was and their dog, were on board. The boat was launched at 4.20 A.M. in a whole S.E. gale, their only home. As the man would not leave, with a very heavy sea, to the help of a number the woman and children, who were very of fishing cobles, of Eiley. The boats had been frightened, were taken off and landed. The left at anchor overnight, but a sudden gale had Life-boat then returned to the boat and sprang up and the whole fleet was in danger brought it to the Pier.—Expenses, £11 13s. of destruction by being driven ashore. The August 10.—THE PLYMOUTH Motor Life- Life-boat was the only available boat that boat was called out at 4 A.M. in a dense fog, could safely be launched in such conditions of with a moderate southerly wind, and rescued sea and weather, and by means of her men the occupants, forty in number, of two launches were taken out and put aboard their craft and and two boats, which were lost in the fog. The the majority of them were got safely ashore. boats belonged to the Royal Air Force and had The Life-boatmen gave their services free on been with a party to Yealni River. All efforts this occasion.—Launching expenses, £4 17s. to trace the boats having failed, the Life-boat August 21.—THE BRIDLINGTON Life- was sent out and found them near the Mew- boat was launched at 2 P.M. in a strong S.S.E. stone Rocks, at anchor in a dangerous position. gale, with a heavy sea, to the help of the Fortunately, the wind and sea had not in- salvage steamer Kernoozer, of Yarmouth, which creased while the boats were out, or disaster was in difficulties owing to the sudden gale and might have overtaken them. The local Air was seen making for harbour. Entry into the . Service Authorities expressed their apprecia- harbour was very dangerous owing to the heavy tion for the prompt help given, and the Har- sea running across the bar. With great diffi- bour Master also expressed his appreciation.— culty three Life-boatmen were put aboard the Expenses, £6 Os. 6d. steamer, and with their assistance, and with August 18.—THE ROSSLARE HARBOUR the Life-boat in attendance, the steamer safely Motor Life-boat was launched at 7 A.M. in a reached harbour. This service was witnessed S.W. wind, with a heavy ground swell, as a by some thousands of spectators.—Expenses, steamer was seen to be ashore on Splough £10 4s. 3d. Rocks, off Greenore Point. There had been a August 21.—THE GREAT YARMOUTH thick fog during the night, but this had lifted AND GORLESTON Motor Life-boat was somewhat at the time of the launch. The vessel launched at 6.10 A.M. in a moderate to fresh proved to be the s.s. Redvers Buller, of Cardiff, S.S.E. gale, with a very heavy sea and rain, as which had run aground in the fog while on the Coastguard had reported that a vessel, passage from Cardiff to Wexford with a cargo about one miie E. by S. of the Coastguard of coal. The Life-boat remained in attendance Station, was sending up distress signals. She in case her help was needed, and eventually proved to be the motor yacht Etenia, of King's the steamer came off the rocks under her own Lynn, which had left that place the day before power and proceeded on her way to Wexford. for a run to Ostend. She had nine persons —Permanent Crew. Expenses, 7s. on board, including the Mayor of Lynn and August 19.—THE DOUGLAS Motor Life- Mr. Gargett, who owned the yacht, a member boat was launched at 9.50 A.M. in a moderate of the King's Lynn Local Committee of the W.S.W. gale, with a very heavy sea, as the Institution. The Life-boat got under the lee master of an incoming steamer reported pass- of the Etenia, and with great difficulty two ing a yacht in difficulties eight or nine miles Life-boatmen were put aboard. Then with S.E. of Douglas Head. On reaching the spot their help and with the Lite-boat in atten- indicated the Life-boat found the yacht, which dance the yacht was taken into safety.— was the Cymro, of Holyhead, being towed in Expenses, £10. the direction of Ramsey by the steam trawler August 23.-—THE EASTBOURNE Motor Dean Swift, of Fleetwood. The Cymro had Life-boat was launched at 9.30 A.M., informa- 240 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. tion having been received from the Coastguard message received from the s.s. Mono, Isle, and that a vessel was in distress about two miles the Mersey Docks Board, that a vessel was in south of Beachy Head. Before the Life-boat distress on Taylor's Bank. A coasting steamer, could reach the position a pleasure steamer however, had meanwhile come to the help of had taken the vessel in tow—the motor yacht the steamer. While returning to her Station Firefly, of Southampton—which had engine the Life-boat came across the fishing boat trouble, and was in difficulties in the heavy AysJia in difficulties. She was beating up sea and strong southerly breeze. The Life- against the breeze, but would have been unable boat accompanied the two vessels until they to reach a safe position before the ebb tide reached Newhaven in safety and then returned made, without help, so the Life-boat took her to her Station, arriving at 1.45 P.M.—Expenses, in tow.—Expenses, £7 18*. £17 18*. The following services were also reported :— August 23.—THE HUMBER No. 1 Motor July 21.—THE BERWICK-ON-TWEED Life-boat was launched at 3.40 P.M., in a strong Motor Life-boat was launched in a rough sea, E.S.E. breeze, with a rough sea and rain, and with a strong N.N.E. breeze, at 10.50 A.M. and rescued the crew of two of the auxiliary sloop saved the yacht Stella, of Greenock, bound from Dakar, of Hull, which was loading gravel on Hull to the Clyde, rescuing her three occupants. the south end of the Inner Sinks, and had got The Coastguard had reported the casualty by into serious difficulties when overtaken by the telephone, and the Life-boat came up with the incoming tide. The sloop was swept and yacht, about three miles east of Burnmouih, buried by heavy seas, and the Life-boat, after not under control. She was taken in tow by getting as near as possible, effected communi- the Life-boat and brought safely across the cation by means of her line-throwing gun. The bar and into Berwick Harbour at 12.30 P.M.— Dakar then passed a hawser to the Life-boat, Property Salvage Case. and by this means she was gradually towed August 8.—THE LONGHOPE Motor Life- , clear of the beach. The Life-boat still re- boat was launched at 4.30 P.M. in a light S.E. mained in attendance until it was ascertained breeze, with a smooth sea and dense fog, on that the sloop had sustained no damage. The receipt of information from the Coastguard Dakar then made for Grimsby under her own that a vessel was ashore on the Pentland power, and the Life-boat returned to her Skerries, and found the steam trawler Louis Station, arriving there at 4.30 P.M. The Botha, of Grimsby. Her crew had launched owner, Mr. P. Burn, of Beverley, sent a con- the ship's boat and laid out an anchor. Then, tribution of £5 to the Institution in apprecia- as the trawler was in danger of turning over tion of the services rendered.—Permanent with the strong tide, they had landed on the Crew Expenses, 7s. Skerry. On the arrival of the Life-boat the August 29.—THE BLYTH Motor Life-boat crew returned to their vessel, and the Life-boat put out at 3.20 P.M. to the help of the steam stood by in case her help was required. At drifter Ocean Lassie, of Yarmouth, which had 9.30 P.M., as the Life-boat was running out a stranded during foggy weather on the north wire hawser to another trawler in order to tow end of the Sow and Pigs Rocks, and had not off the Louis Botha, the latter suddenly slipped replied to the signals of the Coastguard. It off the rocks into deep water, and, with the was found that the drifter had a crew of ten Life-boat still in attendance, made for Long- on board and was bound for the Tyne with hope Harbour, reaching there about midnight. fish. The Life-boat remained by her until, as —Property Salvage Case. the tide rose, she refloated at about 4.45 P.M. August 16.—THE CA1STEH Life-boat was As she was able to proceed to the Tyne and launched at 6.25 A.M. in a moderate W.N.W. required no help, the Life-boat returned to her breeze, with a rough sea, as the steam trawler Station.—Expenses, £5 11s. Jean Dore, of Boulogne, was seen to be ashore August 30.—THE FILEY Life-boat was on the Middle Caister Shoal. The Life-boat launched at 1.10 P.M., in response to signals went alongside, and gradually, with the rising from a vessel ashore at Horse Rock Scar, tide, the vessel refloated, and, with the Life- during foggy weather, with a moderate swell boat still in attendance, proceeded south under and moderate northerly wind. The vessel was her own power, coming to anchor off the mouth found to be the steam drifter Girl Ena, of Yar- of Yarmouth Harbour.--Property Salvage mouth, with a crew of ten on board. Her Case. Skipper asked that the Life-boat should stand August 30. -THE RUNSWICK Life-boat by, and she remained until shortly after 7 P.M., rendered assistance to the steam trawler when the drifter refloated and was taken to Cornelian, of Grimsby, which had stranded, Scarborough. The Life-boat returned to her with a crew of fifteen on board, at Kettleness Station at 7.45 p.m. Point, while returning from the Faroe fishing An unfortunate accident occurred at the ground, during thick weather. Information of launch of the Boat, John W. Willis, a member the casualty had been received from the Coast- of the Crew, being killed by the carriage wheels. guard, and the Life-boat proceeded to the A pension was granted to his widow, an allow- trawler at 9.25 P.M. Additional anchors were ance made for a dependent daughter, and the run out, and the Life-boat then stood by until funeral expenses paid.—Expenses, £22 14s. 6d. the following morning, when she helped to September 6.—THE NEW BRIGHTON refloat the trawler. As the Cornelian was No. 2 Motor Life-boat put out at 6.30 P.M. in able to proceed, the Life-boat returned to her a moderate southerly breeze, in response to a Station at 10.45 A.M.—Property Salvage Case. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 241 Also voted £239 13s. lid. to pay the expenses Voted los. to two men for putting off from of the following Life-boat launches, assemblies Moelfre in a rowing boat and assisting a small of crews, etc., with a view to assisting persons pulling boat which was being carried seaward on vessels in distress :—Ballycotton, Bern- by the tide, on the afternoon of the 25th July. bridge (Motor), Blyth (Motor), Clacton-on-Sea Voted 10s. to the Life-boat Coxswain and (Motor), Cromer (Motor), Cromer No. 2, Second Coxswain, who. with the Second Motor Douglas (Motor), Dover (Motor), Fowey Mechanic, put out in the Life-boat's boarding (Motor). Great Yarmouth and Gorieston boat on the 21st July and landed the only (Motor), Hastings. The Humber No. 1 (Motor), occupant of the motor launch CintiHa, which The Hurnber No. - (Motor), Longhope (Motor), had broken down off New Brighton Pier, in a Montrose No. 1 (Motor), Porthoustock, Redcar, strong N.N.W. wind, rough sea, and ebbing Kosslare Harbour (Motor), Selsey and Bognor tide. (Motor), Southend-on-Sea (Motor), Teesmouth (Motor), Tenby (Motor), Tynemouth (Motor), Voted £3 to three men for putting off in Walmer, and Wells. a small boat and rescuing eight men of the steam trawler Lord Percy, of Grimsby, which The Anstruther Life-boat Crew also -assem- had run aground, and later sank, on the north bled. side of the IsJe of Swona, in the Orkneys, on Passed a further £341 19s. on account of the 3rd June. The trawler ran on the rocks pensions already granted to dependent rela- in a dense fog at 5 A.M., and the three men, tives of men who lost their lives in the Life- hearing the steamer's whistle, put off and boat Service at Aldeburgh, Broughty Ferry, helped in an attempt to run out an anchor. Caister, Eastbourne, Fethard, Filey, Fraser- While this was being done the trawler's boat burgh, Holyhead, Johnshavcn, Moelfre, The was dragged down into 25 fathoms of water Mumbles, New Brighton, Port Eynon, Pad- by the anchor chain. The skipper, who was in stow, Port St. Mary, Rhoscolyn, Rye Harbour, the boat, was drowned ; but one of the crew St. Davids, Walmrr, and Whit by. who was with him was rescued. The rescuers' Granted £79 13s. Qd. to men for injury in boat had a narrow escape from being dragged the Life-boat Service at Blackpool, Caister, under also, as it was towing the other boat, but Cardigan, Eastbourne, Xewhaven, Moelfre, the tow rope snapped under the strain. After Wells, and Winterton. this mishap the rescuers, who had run con- Voted a compassionate grant of £30 to the siderable risk, took off the crew and brought widow of JAMES THAIN, of Ackergill. Thain, them safely ashore. The body of the skipper who held the position of Coxswain at the time was also taken ashore. of his death, had previously been Second Cox- Voted 5s. to one of the New Brighton Life- swain, and would have been entitled to a pen- boat Crew, who put off in the Life-boat's motor sion had he retired. boarding dinghy, with the Permanent Motor Voted a pension under the Institution's Mechanic, and rescued the sole occupant of the Scheme to the widow of JOHN W. WILLIS, a yacht Mascot, of New Brighton, which, while member of the Crew of the Filey Life-boat, being brought to its moorings, was caught in a who was accidentally killed by the Life-boat moderate south-westerly gale, and, with the carriage wheels when the boat was being tide ebbing, was drifting towards Gladstone launched for service on the 30th August. An Dock Wall, where she would in all probability allowance was also granted on account of one have been dashed to pieces. The yacht was daughter until she reaches the age of sixteen ; towed safely to her moorings. and the funeral expenses, amounting to £14 3s., Voted £3 7s. 6d. to nine men, in two boats, were paid. all members of the Life-boat Crew, who Reported that the President of Germany had rescued the crew of two of the fishing boat awarded Certificates to the members of the Jfancy, of Llanduduno, which got into diffi- Crew of the Margate Motor Life-boat, who, on culties off Little Onne's Head and was in the 28th-29th December, rendered assistance danger of driving on to the rocks, in a strong to the German motor ship Hermine. The reci- westerly wind, with a rough sea, on the 6th pients were : WILLIAM WALKER, Acting Cox- September. Some of the men put off from the swain ; EDWIN JORDAN, Motor Mechanic; shore in a motor launch, and the others, who WILLIAM MACKIE, Assistant Motor Mechanic ; were in a fishing boat near by, got a line to the and THOMAS CAMPANY, WILLIAM HYDE, SEN., endangered boat and kept her from going ashore CHARLES EPPS, SEN., Life-boatmen. until the arrival of the launch. The crew of the endangered boats were taken into the Directed that a Special Letter of Thanks motor launch, which then took the two fishing and £1 should be sent to Coastguard R. J. boats in tow. On the way back a third fishing COLLINS for rescuing the four occupants of a boat was also taken in tow and brought into rowing boat on the night of the 21st August, safety. Also granted 7s. 6Osaka were rescued. Motor Life-boat saved the fishing lugger Directed that a Letter of Appreciation be Benita, of Wexford, and rescued her crew of sent to Mr. V. G. North, Honorary Secretary, four during a whole E. by S. gale with a very at Shoreham Harbour, who accompanied -the heavy sea and rain. The boat was seen by Life-boat Crew on service on the 23rd Sep- the watchman on duty to be, flying a signal of tember. distress, and the Life-boat was launched at Referred to the General Purposes and 8 A.M. The Benittt was found to be making Publicity Committees for consideration, the water as she had sprung her mast and had question of the adequacy of Coast-watching. carried away her rigging. With considerable difficulty communication was effected, and the Voted £255 17*. 6rf. to pay the expenses of disabled boat was assisted into Rosslare the following Life-boat services :— Harbour, the Life-boat returning to her Sept. 17th.—The BALLYCOTTON Motor Station at 10 A.M.—Permanent Crew : Ex- Life-boat saved the fishing yawl Boozer, of penses, 7*. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 243 Sept. 19th.—The PADSTOW No. 2 Motor to the south of Whinnyfold. The steamer had Life-boat put out in a moderate S.W. gale with left the Tyne the previous day for New York, a rough sea and saved the yacht Emanuel, of in ballast, with seventy-two persons on Bridgwater, rescuing her two occupants, when board. Information of the casualty was she was in a dangerous position off the Doom received from the Coastguard at about 6 A.M., Bar. The Coastguard had reported that the and the Life-boat was promptly launched. The vessel was in need of assistance, and at 6.15 P.M. weather was thick with a rough sea and a the Life-boat went out and towed the yacht moderate southerly gale, but owing to the into safety.—Expenses, £2 5*. position of the vessel not having been given Sept. 19th-20th.—The WEYMOUTH Motor exactly, the Life-boat failed to find her. and Life-boat rescued the crew, two in number, of returned. On learning the correct position, the ketch Leonie, of St. Malo, and afterwards the Life-boat again put out and reached the saved the vessel. Information was received casualty at 10 A.M. She remained with her that flares of distress had been seen under until 5 P.M:, and then took off eight men and Sandsfoot Castle, and the Life-boat was landed them at Peterhead. Later she put out launched at 10.35 P.M. in a strong S.W. gale for a third time and rescued a further twenty- with a heavy sea and rain. The ketch, which four men. She then returned to her Station was bound from Poole to Roseoff, in ballast, at 6 P.M., twelve hours after she first set out. was found ashore. The men on board were The remainder of the steamer's crew were taken into the Life-boat, which reached Wey- rescued by Life Saving Apparatus. The mouth again at 11.25 P.M. At 9 A.M. the Committee granted an additional reward to the following morning the Coastguard reported Crew in recognition of this long and arduous that a small vessel was drifting out of Portland service.—Expenses, £5 17s. Harbour. As no tug was available the Life- Sept. 27th.—The SCARBOROUGH Motor boat put out at 9.20 A.M. The vessel was Life-boat escorted into harbour six drifters found to be the abandoned Leonie. Two men and a motor boat. At 1.15 P.M. a telephone were placed on board and she was brought message had been received from the Whitby into Weymouth Harbour.—First service : Ex- Life-boat Coxswain that a small vessel was penses, £12 10s. ; Second service : Property heading south towards Scarborough. The Salvage Case. Life-boat Crew assembled and waited events. Sept. 20th.—The HYTHE Motor Life-boat At 3.30 P.M. the vessel was sighted, but on was launched in a strong gale with a heavy sea account of the very rough sea and state of the and rain, and stood by the motor vessel tide she was unable to make harbour and put Senator, of Hamburg, the engine of which had to sea again. Shortly afterwards six drifters broken down. The Life-boat put out at appeared in sight and the Life-boat was 7.55 P.M., the Coastguard having reported that launched at 5 P.M. in a strong N. gale, with a the vessel was drifting up Channel, flying a very heavy sea and heavy rain, to stand by signal of distress, five miles to the S.E. of them and the motor boat as they made a dash Dungeness. The - Life-boat found a tug for harbour. The drifters, the La Parisienne, endeavouring to effect communication with of Lowestoft, Brighter Hope, Nellie Gardner the casualty. The third attempt was success- and Arerfall, of Banff, Treasure, of Grimsby, ful. The Life-boat stood by the tug and the and the Dewie Rose, of Fraserburgh, together vessel until they neared Dover, and then with the motor boat Valkyrie, of Fraserburgh, returned, as her services were no longer eventually made harbour with the Life-boat required.—Expenses, £22 13*. Cxi. in attendance. The Life-boat was rehoused at 6.40 P.M.—Expenses, £17. Sept. 20th.—The PLYMOUTH Motor Life- boat landed eighteen of the crew of the S.S. Oct. 1st.—The WHITBY Motor Life-boat Umberleigh, of London, which had stranded in was launched at 11.35 A.M. in a moderate Bovisand Bay during a whole S.S.W. gale with E.N.E. breeze, with a rough sea, and showers a very heavy sea and rain, while bound from of rain, and escorted into harbour the motor Antwerp to Barry, in ballast. The Life-boat fishing boats Faith and Irene, of Whitby. went out at 3.30 A.M., and was asked by the Several boats had gone off to their crab pots at Captain to stand by. This she did in terrific 5 A.M., but by 9 o'clock they had all returned weather, it being reported that the gale with the exception of these two. A watch was reached a force of eighty miles an hour. At kept, and at 11 o'clock the Faith was sighted daylight the Life-boat left the steamer after some distance to the north. As the sea was arranging to return at 1 P.M., but at 9.30 A.M. by this time breaking heavily across the an urgent wireless call was received, and she harbour entrance, it was considered advisable immediately went back. Eighteen of the to launch the Life-boat in case her help was Umberleigh's crew of thirty-four were taken off required. The Faith was met and escorted in the breeches buoy and landed at Plymouth. safely into harbour. The Life-boat then lay At 4.30 P.M. the Life-boat was again called out alongside the Fish Quay until at 1 P.M. the to stand by the ship while she was being Irene was sighted, and she too was met and refloated, and returned at 5.30 P.M.—Expenses. escorted home.—Expenses, £9 6s. 6

Awards to Honorary Workers. IN recognition of long and valuable co-opera- In recognition of lon^ and valuable co-opsra- tion, the Gold Brooch or Pendant and the tion, Framed Photographs of a Life-boat Record of Thanks have been awarded to the going out to a vessel in distress have been following Honorary Officials of Branches and awarded to the following Honorary Officials Guilds and other Honorary Workers :— of Branches and Guilds and other Honorary Mr. EDWARD DEAN, Honorary Secretary, Workers :— Oldham. Miss ACKERS, Honorary Secretary, Cam- Mr. G. BURTON FRASER, Honorary Secretary, bridge. Reading. Miss BROWNING, Joint Honorary Secretary, Capt. W. R. GRAHAM, Honorary Secretary, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Sidmouth. Cemaes. Miss GLADYS U. BROCKBANK, Collector, Mr. CLAUDE M. HART, Honorary Secretary, Edgbaston. The Lizard. Mr. J. J. COSTAIN, Honorary Secretary, Mrs. H. MOREY, Life-boat Worker, Leicester. Castletown. Admiral STUART NICHOLSON, C.B., M.V.O., Mr. C. DOWNEY, Honorary Secretary, D.L., Honorary Secretary, Bude. Limerick. Mrs. F. D. SPENCER, Honorary Secretary, Mr. R. FOGG, Honorary Treasurer, Fleetwood. Wolverhampton. Commr. C. H. FFORDE, R.N., Honorary Mr. A. J. R. URTDGE, Honorary Secretary, Secretary, Lurgan. Lewes. Mrs. FERGUSON, Honorary Secretary, Ladies' Mr. ARTHUR L. WATSON, Honorary Secretary, Life-boat Guild, Bridgwater. Cowes. Miss E. DE B. GRIFFITH, Honorary Secretary, Miss M. WILKINSON, Honorary Secretary, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, Shanklin. Barnet. Mr. T. W. HOBLING, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer, Sidmouth. To Mr. A. H. TEARE, J.P., M.H.K., on his Mrs. TYRRELL, Honorary Secretary, Ludlow. retirement after 16 years as Honorary Mr. H. W. WARD, Honorary Secretary, Secretary of the Ramsey Branch, the Hunstanton. Thanks of the Institution inscribed on To Mrs. J. W. GRAHAM, in recognition of her Vellum. valuable co-operation as Honorary Secretary In recognition of long and valuable co-opera- of the Brill Branch, the Record of Thanks. tion, Binoculars have been awarded to the Records of Thanks have been awarded to the following Honorary Secretaries of Life-boat following Managers of Theatres who have Stations :— allowed collections on behalf of the Institu- Mr. JOHN W. BAYES, Flamborough. tion :— Mr. B. J. KIRKHAM, New Brighton. Mr. A. BULMEK, Theatre Royal, Hanley. Capt. J. T. SHAW, Redcar. Mr. H. J. CRANE, Grand Theatre, Hanley. Mr. C. E. TATHAM, Btackpool. Mr. J. JOHNSON, The Hippodrome, Burslem.

The Wreck of the "Islander." A FULL account appeared in the last issue Roseveare, the leader in the attempt, ! of The Lifeboat of the wreck of the yacht the Board of Trade has awarded a piece of Islander, with the loss of six lives, and of plate, to Mr. L. Dunn, who went into the the gallant efforts made from the shore by sea with a rope, a binocular glass, and to several men to rescue the crew when the Mr. A. Charman, Mr. W. H. Eddy and vacht was almost on the rocks. To Mr. Mr. L. V. Hunt, monetary awards.

Life-boat House: Change of Address. OWING to the fact that the present Head- They have now acquired, on favourable quarters at Life-boat House, Charing terms, the lease of 42 and 44, Grosvenor Cross Road, have for some years been Gardens, S.W. 1, close to Victoria too small for the staff required to Station. The new "Life-boat House'' deal with the constant expansion of the will be ready for occupation shoit'y, Institution's activities, the Committee of and as soon as the date for the Management have for the past year been removal is fixed, it will be announced in in search of more suitable premises. the Press. 246 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931.

News from the Branches. 1st October to 31st December. Greater London. WALTHAMSTOW.—St. Saviour's Con- CHELSEA.—First Annual Meeting on cert. St. Andrew's Concert, with 4th November at the Royal Chelsea address by Lieut.-Col. C. R. Satter- Hospital, by permission of the Governor thwaite, O.B.E., Deputy Secretary of and Lady Lyttelton. Speakers : Major- the Institution. General the Right Hon. John E. B. By the death of Mr. J. C. Gillett, Seely, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., a member M.B.E., Vice-Chairman since 1926, the of the Committee of Management, Rear- Branch has lost a most energetic sup- Admiral Sir Robert King Hall, K.C.B., porter, one of the original members of Air Vice-Marshal Sir Oliver Swann, Miss its Committee, and one of its founders. Macnamara, and the District Organizing WIMBLEDON.—Meeting at the house Secretary. Amount collected last year of Lady Hopkinson. Speaker : Col. The £231, as compared with £43 in the Master of Sempill, a member of the previous year, in which the Branch was Committee of Management. formed. CHISLEHURST.—Bridge Drive. Sixteen lectures and addresses, in addition to those mentioned, were given CROYDON (SURREY).—Presentation by by the District Organizing Secretary. the Mayoress of the Challenge Shield for the South-Eastern area in the Life- North-West of England. boat Essay Competition. Speaker : Mr. ACCRINGTON (LANCS.).—Annual Meet- H. A. Baker, a member of the Com- ing on llth November. Amount col- mittee of Management. lected last year £197, as compared with FULHAM.—Talk to children at the £183 in the previous year. Public Library by Lieut.-Col. C. R. Collections in places of amusement Satterthwaite, O.B.E., Deputy Secretary arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat of the Institution. Guild. HAMPSTEAD.—Presentation of the BAMBER BRIDGE AND WALTON-LE- Shield for the London area in the Life- DALE (LANCS.).—Whist Drive, arranged boat Essay Competition. Speaker : by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Col. The Master of Sempill, a member of BLACKBURN (LANCS.).—Annual Meet- the Committee of Management. ing of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on HAYES.—Annual Meeting on 13th 1st October. Mrs. W. Carmichael and November. Amount collected last year Mrs. E. Livesey were elected Chairman £114, as compared with £130 in the and Hon. Treasurer, respectively, for the previous year. coming year, in place of Mrs. R. R. Fielding and Lady Thorn, who have KENSINGTON.—Meeting at the house retired. Miss Woolfall elected Hon. of Lady Nicholson. Speaker : Mr. Secretary. Amount collected last year George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the £161, as compared with £98 in the Institution. previous year. MITCHAM (SURREY) — First Annual BLACKPOOL (LANCS.).—Sale of Work Meeting. Speaker : the District Organi- organized by the Ladies' Life-boat zing Secretary. Amount collected last Guild. Address to the Rotary Club by year £81. the District Organizing Secretary. RADLETT (HERTS.).—Drawing-room BLACKROD (LANCS.).—Life-boat Lan- meeting given by Mrs. Baucher, the tern Lecture by Mr. G. N. Pugh, husband Hon. Secretary. Speaker : the District of the President of the Ladies' Life-boat Organizing Secretary. Guild. ST. ALBANS (HERTS.).—Dance. Con- BRIERCLIFFE (LANCS.).—Whist Drive, cert. arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 247 COLNE (LANCS.).—Concert given by a supporter whose interest in the Life- the Colne Optimists and organized by boat Service dates back many years, the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. and whose help was generously given to CULCHETH-WITH-KENYON (LANCS.). its work on many occasions. —Bridge and Whist Drive, arranged by ALDERLEY EDGE.—Special Meeting the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. convened bv Lady Stewart, President DALTON-IN-FURNESS.—Meeting of the of the Guild, the Rev. W. J. Gravell, Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Mrs. Layland B.A., Vicar of Alderley Edge, pre- elected Hon. Secretary in the place of siding. Address by Mr. J. Cuming- Mrs. P. Banks. Walters, M.A. (Editor of the Man- chester City News), supported by GREAT HARWOOD (LANCS.).—House- Captain W. C. Bacon, J.P. (Chairman to-House Collection. of the Manchester, Salford and HEYWOOD (LAN'cs.).—Annual Meet- District Branch), and the Rev. Albany ing of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on S. Renton. 27th November. Amount collected last CHEADLE HULME.—Whist Drive, year £64, as compared with £95 in the arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat previous year. Guild. HORWICH (LANCS.),—Annual Whist CHEETHAM and CHEETHAM HILL.— Drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Ladies' Life-boat Guild formed. Guild. HYDE (CHESHIRE).—Lantern Lecture CHORLTON-CUM-HARDY. — House- by the Hon. Secretary. to-House Collection. INCE-IN-MAKERFIELD (LANCS.). — CLAYTON.—Annual Meeting on 24th Schools' Envelope Collection. October. Amount collected last year £131, as compared with £139 in the KENDAL (WESTMORLAND). — Annual previous year. Annual Social and Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild Whist Drive. on 10th December. Amount collected last year £120, as compared with £106 CRUMPSALL. — Ladies' Life-boat in the previous year. Guild formed. KESWICK (CUMBERLAND). — Annual DENTON.—Annual Dance. Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild FALLOWFIELD. — Junior Guild on 15th October. Amount collected Meeting. last year £46, as compared with £20 in SALFORD.—Address by the Branch the previous year. Assistant Secretary at a meeting of KIRKBY STEPHEN (WESTMORLAND).— the members of the Women's Bright Lantern Lecture by the Rev. W. Hartley, Hour. Annual Whist Drive. of G"reat Salkeld. Addresses at Blackley, -Cheetham, LANCASTER.—Annual Meeting of the Gorton, Moss Side and Openshaw. Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 25th Novem- MARYPORT (CUMBERLAND). — Whist ber. Amount collected last year £167, Drives, Supper and Dance, arranged by as compared with £173 in the previous the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. year. LYMM AND HEATLEY (CHESHIRE).— MIDDLETON (LANCS.).—Annual Meet- Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat ing of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on Guild on 6th October. Amount col- 25th November. Amount collected last lected last year £96, as compared with year £49, as compared with £47 in the £104 in the previous year. previous year. MANCHESTER, SALFORD AND DISTRICT. MILLOM (CUMBERLAND). — House-to- —Halle Concert Collection. Collections House Collection. in Cinemas and Theatres and on the MOTTRAM AND BROADBOTTOM Racecourse. (CHESHIRE).—Annual Meeting of the By the death of its Chairman, Captain Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 30th October. W. C. Bacon, J.P., the Branch has lost Amount collected last year £21, as com- 248 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBBUARY, 1931. pared with £8 in the previous year. SANDBACH (CHESHIRE). — Life-boat Whist Drive. Day. Dance of the Season, arranged PADIHAM (LANCS.).—House-to-House by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Col- Collection. Jumble Sale. Whist Drive, lections in Cinemas. arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. STANDISH (LANCS.).—Annual Meeting PIEL (BAEROW) (LANCS.) — Annual of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 31st October. Mrs. Dickinson elected Hon. Meeting of the Branch and Ladies' Life- Treasurer in the place of Mrs. T. Wilson boat Guild on 4th December, the Mayor Shaw. Amount collected last year £89, of Barrow, President of the Branch, in the Chair. Amount collected last year as compared with £56 in the previous year. £206, as compared with £196 in the previous year. TINTWISTLE (CHESHIRE). — Dance, American Tea, organize! by the arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Hot-pot TOTTINGTON. (LANCS.).—Whist and Supper given by the members of the Bridge Drive, arranged by the Ladies' Ladies' Life-boat Guild to the crew. Life-boat Guild. POET ERIN (!SLE OF MAN).—Annual WESTHOUGHTOX (LANCS.). — Whist Meeting of the Branch on 22nd October. Drive. Amount collected last year £370, as WIGAN (LANGS.).—Annual Meeting of compared with £347 in the previous year. the Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 17th RAMSBOTTOM (LANCS.). — Annual October, the Mayoress, President of the Meeting held in November. Amount Guild, in the chair. Amount collected collected last year £45, as compared last year £155, as compared with £88 in with £40 in the previous year. the previous year. RAMSEY (!SLE OF MAN).—Annual Life-boat Service at the Free Church. Meeting on 12th December, the Rev. M. North-East of England. W. Harrison, M.A., Chairman of the Branch, presiding. Mr. J. B. Kee was BARNARD CASTLE (DURHAM).—Jum- appointed Hon. Secretary of the Branch ble Sale. in place of Mr. A. H. Teare, J.P., who BEDLINGTON (NORTHUMBERLAND).— had held this office for fifteen years. Whist Drive. Mr. Teare's resignation was accepted with regret, and appreciation expressed BERWICK (NORTHUMBERLAND). — for his services to the Institution. Annual Ball. Amount collected last year £102, as BEVERLEY (¥ORKS.).—Whist Drive. compared with £148 in the previous BISHOP AUCKLAND (DURHAM). — year. House-to-House Collection. Military • Whist Drive, arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Life-boat BRADFORD — Annual L i f e - b o a t Day. Presentation of a cheque to the Matinee at the Alhambra Theatre. late Coxswain, Mr. John Garrett. Concert at Ilkley. Whist Drive and Dance. ROMILEY (CHESHIRE).—Annual Meet- ing on 25th November. Amount col- CULLERCOATS (NORTHUMBERLAND).— lected last year £40, as compared with Annual Meeting, Mr. J. C. Swan, Chair- £36 in the previous year. man, presiding. Efforts of the past Two performances of '' The Lilies of year: Life-boat Day. Amount col- the Field," given by the Romiley lected last year £239, as compared with Amateur Dramatic Society. £256 in the previous year. Presentation of the Gold Brooch ST. ANNE'S-ON-SEA (LANCS.).—Private presentation of the Framed Photograph awarded by the Institution to Mrs. awarded by the Institution to Mr. R. V. Polly Donkin, by the Mayor of Tyne- mouth. Dame Maud Burnett. Pye, Hon. Secretary of the Branch, in recognition of his twenty years' associa- DARLINGTON (Dl'KHA.M). Whist tion with the Institution. Drive. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 249 DERWENT VALLEY (DURHAM). — LEEDS. — Annual Meeting of the Dance, Cabaret Performance and a Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Amount col- Mannequin Parade. lected last year £1,130, as compared DEWSBURY (YoRKS.). --Bridge and with £1,231 in the previous year. Whist Drive. MARKET WEIGHTON (YORKS.). — DURHAM.—Special Service in Durham Whist Drive. Cathedral. Preacher : The Right Rev. MELTHAM (YORKS.).—Whist Drive. the Lord Bishop of Durham (Dr. NEWBURX (NORTHUMBERLAND). Hensley Henson). Special Meeting and Tea, Lady Applebv Chrysanthemum Show. presiding. Address by the District FILBY (YoRKS.).—Presentation of the Organizing Secretary. Challenge Shield for the North-East of NEWCASTLE - ON - TYXE. — House - to England in the Life-boat Essay Com- House Appeal. petition, by Mrs. Councillor Whitfield, President of the Scarborough Ladies' NORMANTON (YoRKS.).—Meeting and Life-boat Guild. Social Gathering. GATESHEAD (DURHAM). — Annual REDCAR (YORKS.).—Annual Meeting. Meeting on 24th November, the Mayor, Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, President, in the chair. Speaker : Mrs. Special Appeal by the Mayor. Amount Graham. Efforts of the past year: collected last year £184, as compared Life-boat Day, Dance, Garden Fete, with £155 in the previous year. and Bridge Drives. Amount collected SCARBOROUGH (YORKS.). — Sunday last year £293, as compared with £253 in Evening Concert. Whist Drive. Bridge the previous year. Drive. Annual Dance. SEAHAM HARBOUR (DURHAM). — HALIFAX (YORKS.).—Annual Meeting Annual Ball. Guests received by the on 23rd November. The Mayoress, Marchioness of Londonderry, D.B.E., President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, President of the Seaham Ladies' Life- in the chair. Efforts of the past year : boat Guild. Children's Dance. Guild Concert, Whist Drives. Amount col- Social. lected last year £209, as compared with SOWERBY BRIDGE (YORKS.).—Annual £230 in the previous year. Meeting on 18th November, Mrs. Matinee at Theatre Royal. Bethune, President of the Ladies' Life- HARTLEPOOL (D URHAM) .—Presenta- boat Guild, in the chair. Efforts of the tion by the Marchioness of Londonderry, past year: Life-boat Day, Special D.B.E., a Vice-President of the Ladies' Appeal. Amount collected last year Life-boat Guild, of the Vellum recording £31, as compared with £24 in the the appointment of Mr. Alfred Belk, previous year. Hon. Secretary, as a Life-Governor of STAINLAND (YORKS.).—Dance. the Institution, and of the Bronze Medal WAKEFIELD (Y'oRKS.).—Jumble Sale. awarded to Coxswain Robert Hood for Whist Drive. the service to the Danish vessel Doris. (See full account of service on p. 215.) Midlands. Annual Ball, j ASHBOURNE (DERBY.) — Branch HECKMONDWIKE (YORKS.). — Tea formed. Hon. Secretary, Mr. H. E. Dance. Sellers. HUDDERSFIELD (YORKS.). — Annual BELPER AND HEAGE (DERBY.).—Life- Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, boat Day. the Mayoress, President, in the chair. BIRMINGHAM.—Presentation by the Speaker: Alderman Law Taylor. Lord Mayor of the Framed Record of Efforts of the past year : Bring and Buy Thanks awarded to the City Fire Brigade Sale, Life-boat Day. Amount collected by the Institution. Presentation to the last year £317, as compared with £397 City Police Force of the Record of in the previous year. Thanks awarded to them by the Institu- 250 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. tion. Presentation to Lieut, Gwillam NORTHAMPTON.—Annual Meeting, and the Officers and Cadets of the 1st Mr. Archer, Vice-Chairman, presiding. Birmingham Sea Cadets of the Framed Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day. Record of Thanks awarded to them by Amount collected last year £228, as the Institution. compared with £43 in the previous year. Collections at the Hippodrome and OLDBUBY AND LANGLEY (WORCES- the Alexandra Theatre. Dance Recital TER).—Special Meeting, Councillor B. J. at Edgbaston. Special Meeting of the Robbins in the chair. Speaker: the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. District Organizing Secretary. New Broadcast talks by the District Branch formed. Councillor Mrs. Grow- Organizing Secretary from the Midland cott, Chairman, Mrs. Thornley and Mrs. Regional Station on " False Alarms in Rose, Joint Hon. Secretaries. the Life-boat Service," and " The Great Gales of Last Winter." Two lantern OWSTON FERRY (LiNcs.).—Life-boat lectures at the Salvation Army Head- Day. quarters, and four other lectures and RETFORD (NOTTS.).—WThist Drive and addresses by the District Organizing Dance. Secretary. ROTHWKLL (NoBTHAXTS.).—Life-boat BRISTOL.—Life-boat Day. Day. BEOWNHILLS (STAFFS.). — Branch STOKE-ON-TRENT (STAFFS.).—Annual formed. Hon. Secretary, Mrs. Lane. Meeting, Mrs. Moxon in the chair. Efforts of the past year : Life-boat Day, CHELTENHAM (GLOS.).—Whist Drive Whist Drives. Amount collected last and Dance. year £302, as compared with £355 in the CHESTERFIELD (DERBY.).—Life-boat previous year. Day. Collections in Works. STROUD (GLOS.).—Whist and Bridge COVENTRY (WARWICK.). — Presenta- Party. tion of Framed Record of Thanks to SUTTON-IN-ASHFIEL1) (NOTTS.).— Tea Scout-Master Mrs. L. M. Longbottom Dance. by the Chairman, Mr. William Liggins. Life-boat Day, with Life-boat taken WOLVERHAMPTON (STAFFS.).—Annual through the streets. Meeting on 24th November, Mr. A. C. Skidmore, Chairman, presiding. Speaker: DUDLEY (Woscs.).—Life-boat Day. the District Organizing Secretary. GAINSBOROUGH (LiNcs.).—Life-boat Efforts of the past year : Dance, Life- Day. boat Day. Amount collected last year £469, a'i compared with £475 in the GLOUCESTER.—Life-boat Day. previous year. ILKESTON (DERBY.).—Sunday Con- Carol singing. cert. Eight lectures and addresses by the KIDDERMINSTER (WORCESTER). — District Organizing Secretary in addi- Life-boat Day. tion to those mentioned, and six LEAMINGTON (WARWICK). — Annual addresses at the presentation of certifi- Meeting, Lieut.-Gen. Sir John L. Keir, cates in the Life-boat Essay Competi- K.C.B., D.L., J.P., Chairman, presiding. tion. Speaker : the District Organizing Secre- tary. Special Efforts of the past year : South-East of England. House-to-House, Theatre and Cinema ATTLEBOROUGH (NORFOLK). — Life- Collections. Presentation of the Gold boat Day. Brooch awarded by the Institution to BERKHAMPSTED (HERTS.).—Lecture to to Mrs. B. H. Holding, the Hon. Northchurch Women's Institute by Secretary. Amount collected last year Capt. H. E. Holme, R.N., Hon. £232, as compared with £216 in the Secretary at Kernel Hempstead. previous year. CAMBERLEY (SURREY). — Life-boat LOUTH (LiNcs.).—Life-boat Day.' Day. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 251 CANTERBURY (KENT).—Church Col- a member of the Committee of Manage- lection at Wingham on Christmas Day. ment. Concert. Lectures by Mrs. Johnson Smyth, B.A. Presentation by^Capt. Fanshawe of CHELMSFORD (ESSEX).—Whist Drive. the Thanks of the Committee inscribed on Vellum to Mr. Ernest Woolfield, the CRAWLEY (.SUSSEX).—Annual Meet- Hon. Secretary. ing, Vice-Admiral E. K. Loring, C.B., in the chair. Amount collected £22. KING'S LYNN (NORFOLK). — Three Carol singing. lectures by the Vicar of Middleton. CROMER (NORFOLK).—Annual Meet- LEATHERHEAD (SURREY). — Carol ing. Amount collected last year £532, Singing. as compared with £571 in the previous LOWESTOFT (SUFFOLK). — Annual year. Meeting, Mr. F. Spashett, J.P., Chair- DARTFORD (KENT).—Life-boat Day. man, presiding. Amount collected last year £218, as compared with £203 in DOVER (KENT).—Dance at the Lord the previous year. Warden Hotel, arranged by Mrs. J. R. W. Richardson. MARGATE (KENT).—Dinner given by Mrs. T. W. Gomrn to the Life-boat EASTBOURNE.—Annual Meeting, Mr. Crew. Presentation of awards from the Norman S. Holland, Chairman, pre- President of the German Republic. A siding. It was reported that Life-boat report will appear in the next issue of Day had raised the record sum of £956, The Lifeboat. and a Vote of Thanks was passed to Mrs. Astley Roberts, President of the Ladies' NEWHAVEN (SUSSEX).—Annual Meet- Life-boat Guild. Amount collected last ing, Major T. H. H. Carter, D.S.O., in year £1,630, as compared with £1,527 in the chair. Amount collected last year the previous year. £84, as compared with £95 in the previous year. EAST GRINSTEAD (SUSSEX).—Lecture by the Hon. Secretary to the Junior ST. IVES (HUNTS.).—Life-boat Day. Branch of the Primrose League. SANDWICH (KENT).—Church Collec- Carol singing. tion. FOLKESTONE (KENT).—Annual Meet- SHOREHAM HARBOUR (SUSSEX). — ing. Amount collected last year £511, Annual Meeting, Mr. Harold Brown, as compared with £461 in the previous Chairman, presiding. Amount collected year. last year £192, as compared with £31 in Ball. Bridge Drive. the previous year. GODALMING (SURREY).— Series of SOUTHEND (ESSEX).—Lecture to the three_ Bridge Drives. Rotary Club by the District Organizing HALSTEAD (ESSEX).—Concert. Secretary. HASLEMERE (SURREY).—Bridge Drive. TENTERDEN (KENT).—Carol Singing. Social. TILBURY (ESSEX).—Branch formed. HASTINGS (SUSSEX).—Performance by Hon. Secretary, Mr. B. A. Everitt. the Operatic Society in aid of the Branch. Lecture by the Hon. Secretary TUNBRIDGE WELLS (KENT).—Whist to Battle Abbey School. Drive. HITCHIN (HERTS.).—Address to the WALTON - ON - THAMES AND WEY- Brotherhood by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., BRIDGE (SURREY).—Combined Bridge Chairman of the Committee of Manage- Tournament. ment. WINSLOW (BUCKS.).—Life-boat Day. HOLT (NORFOLK).—Life-boat Day. Four lectures by Capt. Basil Hall, KESSINGLAND (SUFFOLK). — Annual R.N., and two by the District Organizing Life-boat Service in the Parish Church. Secretary, in addition to those men- Address by Capt. Guy Fanshawe, R.N., tioned. 252 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. South-West of England. Secretary, the Branch has suffered a BASINGSTOKE (HANTS.). — Annual severe loss. Mrs. Wylie had been Hon. Meeting of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild Secretary since 1923, and her generous on 4th November. Mrs. Stratford, interest in the Life-boat Service has been Chairman of the Guild, presided, sup- shown also by a legacy of £100 which ported by the Mayoress, President. she has left to the Institution. Speaker : the District Organizing Secre- OXFORD.—Life-boat Day. tary. Amount collected last year £79, PAIGNTON (DEVON).—Whist Drive, as compared with £82 in the previous arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. year. Mrs. Yerbury was specially thanked for her services as' Hon. Secre- PETERSFIELD AND Lis.s (HANTS.).— tary. Annual Meeting on 21st November, Captain C. J. P. Cave, J.P., Chairman, BATH (SOMERSET).—Annual Meet- presiding. Speaker: Mr. George F. ing, Brig.-General E. H. Molesworth, Shee, M.A. (Secretary of the Institution). C.B., Chairman, presiding. Speaker: Efforts of the past year: Life-boat the District Organizing Secretary. Days, Village Collections, Dramatic Efforts of the past year : Whist Drive, Entertainment. Amount collected last Life-boat Day, Theatrical Performance. year £159, as compared with £70 in the Amount collected last year £414, as previous year. compared with £336 in the previous year. PLYMOUTH.—Annual Meeting of the BODMIN (CORNWALL).—Life-boat Day. Branch and Ladies' Life-boat Guild on 3rd October, the Mayor, a Vice-President BOURNEMOUTH (HANTS.).—Variety of the Branch, in the chair. Efforts of Entertainment arranged by Lieut. - the past year carried out by the Ladies' Colonel V. D. Stenhouse, Hon. Secretary, Life-boat Guild : Bridge Drives, Dances, and the St. Peter's Players in "French and a special Fete and Carnival. Leave." Amount collected last year £646, as CLEVEDON (SOMERSET).—The Branch compared with £734 in the previous has suffered a severe loss by the death of year. Of this sum of £646, the Ladies' Miss Amy Edwards, who has been its Life-boat Guild contributed £552, as Hon. Secretary since 1905. During that compared with £513 in the previous time she collected for the Institution year. over £1,000. She was awarded a TEIGNMOUTH (DEVON).—Ball. Framed Photograph of a Life-boat going to a vessel in distress in 1915 and the WESTON-SUPER-MARE (SOMERSET).—• Gold Brooch of the Institution in 1930 Whist Drive organized by Mrs. Ed- monds, Hon. Secretary of the Ladies' CULLOMPTON (DEVON). — Life-boat Life-boat Guild. Day, Lecture by the Eev. W. T. Price. WEYMOUTH (DORSET).—H.M.S. Os- DAWLISH (DEVON).—Address by the preys' Amateur Dramatic Club presented Rev. W. T. Price, of Cullompton. the play '' Berkeley Square" at the DORCHESTER.—Eighth Annual Dance Pavilion Theatre, and gave the proceeds at the Corn Exchange to the Branch. EXETER (DEVON).—House-to-House One lecture was given by the District Collection. Tea given by Councillor Organizing Secretary. Mrs. Arthur Reed, Chairman, to all helpers, at the Guildhall. Whist Drive Scotland. and Dance organized by the Junior SCOTTISH LIFE-BOAT COUNCIL MEET- Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Prizes dis- ING at Edinburgh on 29th October, the tributed by Mrs. Arthur Reed, Chair- Duke of Montrose, C.B, C.V.O., V.D., man of the Branch. Chairman, presiding. FALMOUTH (CORNWALL). —• Dance AIRDRIE (LANARK).—Life-boat Day. arranged by " The Double Six." Whist Drive arranged by Mrs. William NEWTON ABBOT (DEVON).—By the W. McCosh, President of the Ladies' death of Mrs. E. D. Wylie, its Hon. Life-boat Guild. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 253 AVIEMOEE (INVERNESS). — Jumble President of the Branch, in the chair. Sale, organized by Mrs. Briggs. Speakers: Lord Salvesen, Harriet, BANFF, MACDUFF AND WHITEHILLS Lady Findlay, D.B.E., President of the (BANFF.).—Whist Drive and Dance, Ladies' Life-boat Guild, and Mr. P. H. B. arranged by the Whitehills Committee. Lyon. Efforts of the past year : Life- boat Day and two Dances. Amount BUBNTISLAND (FIFE).—Annual Meet- collected last year £2,367, as compared ing on 14th November, Mr. James Piper, with £1,721 in the previous year. Chairman, presiding, supported by Pro- Annual Meeting of the Ladies' Life- vost Leith, the President. Efforts of the boat Guild, Harriet, Lady Findlay, past year : Appeal by the Committee, D.B.E., President, in the chair. Life-boat Day and Concert. Amount Dance at Palais de Danse arranged by collected last year £82, as compared with the Committee. £48 in the previous year. ELIE (FIFE).—Special Meeting at CAMPBELTOWN (ARGYLLSHIRE).—The which a Ladies' Life-boat Guild was Branch has suffered severe losses by the formed, Provost W. R. Short in the death on 23rd December, of Mr. Duncan chair. Speakers: the Duke of Mon- MacCallum, J.P., at the age of 83, and trose, C.B., C.V.O., V.D., Chairman of of Mr. Alexander Galbraith, the late the Scottish Life-boat Council, and the Motor Mechanic, in September. Mr. District Organizing Secretary. Joint MacCallum, who was a keen yachtsman, Hon. Secretaries, Miss K. G. Glover and had been a member of the Branch Mrs. S. E. Alley. Committee for 51 years. Mr. Galbraith FALKIRK (STIRLING).—Dramatic En- had been Motor Mechanic for twenty tertainment at the works of the Falkirk years, retiring on account of ill-health Iron Company, the entire proceeds being last May. given to the Branch. DENNY AND DUNIPACE (STIRLING).— GLASGOW.—Performances by the Gar- Life-boat Day. rick Comedy Club of " The Young Idea," DUMFRIES.—Lantern Lecture. by Noel Coward, at the Lyric Theatre. DUNBAR (HADDINGTON). — Annual ISLE OF SKYE.—Life-boat Day. Meeting, Dr. Macdonald, Chairman of JOHNSTONE (RENFREW). — Life-boat the Branch, presiding. Amount col- Day. lected last year £269, as compared with KIRKCALDY (FIFE).—Life-boat Day. £297 in the previous year. Bridge Drive, arranged by the Com- DUNDEE (FORFAR).—Annual Meeting mittee and Ladies' Life-boat Guild. on 29th December, Mr. J. M. Hunter KIRKCUDBRIGHT (KIRKCUDBRIGHT). Mitchell, J.P., President of the Branch, —Annual Meeting on 12th December, in the chair. Speaker : the District Sir Charles D. Hope-Dunbar, Bt., Organizing Secretary. Efforts of the President of the Branch, in the chair, past year : Appeal by the Committee supported by Admiral Leatham and and Ladies' Life-boat Guild, special officers of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. Life-boat Week, including Life-boat Day. Efforts of the past year: House-to- Amount collected last year £1,179, as House Collection and Life-boat Days. compared with £1,192 in the previous Amount collected last year £118, as year. compared with £128 in the previous DUNFERMLINE (FIFE).—Whist Drive year. and Dance. MAYBOLE (AYR).—Life-boat Day. EDINBURGH.—Concert and Exhibi- MOTHERWELL (LANARK).—Life-boat tion of Life-boat Films (two perform- Day. ances), arranged by Mrs. T. G. Hender- PAISLEY (RENFREW).—Life-boat Day. son, Ladies' Life-boat Guild Convener for Cramond Bridge. PEEBLES (PEEBLES).—Life-boat Day. Annual Meeting on 27th November, PETERHEAD (ABERDEEN).—Presenta- the Right Hon. the Lord Provost, tion in the Town House, of monetary 254 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931. . awards from the Hall Line and the Bangor, Sir Thomas Dixon, Bt., the Institution to the Peterhead Life-boat Right Hon. Herbert Dixon, M.P., Sir Crew in recognition of their service in R. H. H. Baird, K.B.E., the Lord Mayor rescuing 32 members of the crew of the and Lady Coates, Sir William and Lady City of Osaka on 23rd September, 1930. Turner, and the High Sheriffs of County Presentations made by Mrs. Cran, Fermanagh and County Antrim. President of the Peterhead Ladies' Life- CAHIR (TIPPERARY).—Life-boat Day. boat Guild. Speakers : Provost Milne, Mrs. Troup (Hon. Secretary of the Guild) CLONMEL (TIPPERARY). — Life-boat and Mr. J. J. Henderson (Hon. Secretary Day. of the Branch). COLERAINE (LONDONDERRY).—Annual EOTHESAY (BUTE).—Whist Drive, Meeting on 24th November. Speaker : arranged by the Ladies' Life-boat Guild. the District Organizing Secretary. ST. ABBS (BERWICK).—Annual Meet- Amount collected last year £62, as ing in November. The Lord Amulree, compared with £32 in the previous year. G.B.E., K.C., Minister for Air, elected Presentation of two certificates in the President. Amount collected last year Life-boat Essay Competition for Ele- £117, as compared with £109 in the mentary Schools. previous year. Cinema Show. By the death of Miss Cowe, the CORK.—Dance. Branch has lost a friend who will be deeply regretted. She had been a DONAGHADEE (Co. DOWN).—Whist member of the Committee for many Drive. years, was a regular subscriber, and a EDGEWORTHSTOWN (Co. LONGFORD). zealous Life-boat worker. In 1926 she —Life-boat Day. was awarded the Gold Brooch of the LISTOWEL (KERRY).—Life-boat Day. Institution. WISHAW (LANARK).—Life-boat Day. LONGFORD (Co. LONGFORD).—Special Meeting at the invitation oi Mrs. James Ireland. McNeill (wife of His Excellency the Governor-General), Mrs. Delaney pre- ANTRIM (Co. ANTRIM).—Bal Masque siding. Speaker : the District Organiz- and Whist Drive. ing Secretary. Branch formed. Mrs. BAGNELSTOWN (Co. CARLOW).—Life- Delaney, President ; Mrs. Lloyd, Hon. boat Day. Secretary. Committee of twelve ladies BALLYMONEY (Co. ANTRIM).—Cinema appointed. Show. PORTRUSH (ANTRIM).—Cinema Show. BANDON (CORK).—Life-boat Day. PORTSTEWABT (LONDONDERRY). — BELFAST.—The Fourth Annual Life- Cinema Show. boat Ball was held at the Plaza, and the TUAM (GALWAY).—Life-boat Day, guests were received by Lady Dixon, Dance. D.B.E., First Vice-President, with the help of Lady Margaret Stewart and Lady Wales Helen Stewart, the Patrons of the (Including Herefordshire and Shropshire). Ball. The Marchioness of Londonderry, BURRY PORT (CARMARTHEN). — Life- D.B.E., President of the Belfast Ladies' boat Day. Life-boat Guild, was present with a CONWAY (CARNARVON).—Dance. house party. A number of other Patrons COWBRIDGE (GLAMORGAN) .—Life-boat of the Ball also brought house parties, Day. and among those present were the Right Hon. H. B. H. Mulholland, M.P., Speaker LLANDUDNO (CAERNARVON).—District of the House of Commons ; the Right Conference. (See special report on Hon. H. M. Pollock, M.P. (Minister of page 235.) Finance) ; the Viscountess Craigavon ; LLANRWST (DENBIGH). — Life-boat the Hon. James Craig, the Viscountess Day. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 255 MARKET DRAYTON (SALOP).—Life- PRESTEIGNE (KADNOR). — Life-boat boat Day. Day. MILFORD HAVEN (PEMBROKE).—Life- Fifteen addresses by the JDistrict boat Day. Organizing Secretary in Ireland and NEATH (GLAMORGAN).—Whist Drive. Wales at the presentation of Certificates FORTH (GLAMORGAN).—Life-boat Day. in the Life-boat Essay Competition.

Where Help is Wanted. THE Institution is very anxious to form The Midlands. or develop Branches in the following DERBYSHIRE .—Bakewell, Heanor. places in Greater London and the Mid- lands, and would be very grateful to any GLOUCESTERSHIRE.—Gloucester, Tet- readers of The Lifeboat who could help bury and Tewkesbuiy. it to do this, either personally or by NORTHANTS.—Oundle and Thrapston. putting it in touch with those who might be able to help. NOTTS.—Worksop. Greater London. LINCOLNSHIRE.—Bourne, Grantham, Barnes, Bexley Heath, Camberwell, Market Rasen and Spalding. East Ham, Epsom, Greenwich, Hamp- STAFFORDSHIRE. — Blackheath, stead Garden Suburb, Lambeth, South- Cradley Heath, Darlaston, Leek, gate, Southwark, Staines, Sutton, Quarry Bank, Smallthorne and Wedues- Twickenham, Wanstead, Wembley, burv. Wood Green, Woolwich. WARWICKSHIRE.—Rugby.

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The next number of " The Lifeboat " will be published in May, 1931. 256 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931

Services of the Life-boats of the Institution during 1930.

Persona Time of rescued from 1930. Launching. shipwreck. Jan. 3. 3.45 p.m. S.S. Lestris, of Bruges. Sheringham Life-boat rendered assistance. 2.0 a.m. Steam trawler Braconmoor, of Aberdeen. Longhope Life-boat . 8 12.45 p.m. Fishing coble Providence, of Cullercoats. Cullercoats Life-boat saved coble and rescued 3 7. 10.0 p.m. Motor fishing boat Mizpah, of Brighton. Newhaven Life-boat saved boat and rescued 3 „ 10. 1.55a.m. S.S. Scheldesop, of Ghent. Ramsgate Life-boat saved vessel and rescued 13 „ 12. 5.15p.m. Schooner Katie, of Padstow. Torbay Life-boat 4 Ketch Seine des Cieux, of Paimpol. Torbay Life-boat ... 3 Yacht Westward, and trawlers Hermes and We'll Try. Torbay Life-boat rendered assistance. ,, 12. 10.30 p.m. S.S. Forester, of Cardiff. Weymouth Life-boat 7 „ 22. 7.51 a.m. Steam trawler John G. Watson, of North Shields. Aberdeen No. 2 Life-boat 10 „ 29. 12.20 p.m. A boat of ketch Bernard, of Bridgwater. Dunmore East Life- boat saved boat and rescued 3 „ 31. 6.15 a.m. Steam trawler Lord Ashby, of Grimsby. Filey Life-boat stood by vessel. Three motor fishing cobles, of Filey. Filey Life-boat stood by cobles. Feb. 3. 4.10p.m. Motor fishing boats Pilot Me and Fortunas, of Whitby. Whitby (Motor) Life-boat stood by boats. 12.10 p.m. Coquet Island Lighthouse. Hauxley Life-boat landed a sick man. 11.40a.m. Two fishing cobles and eight motor fishing vessels of Whitby. Whitby (Motor) Life-boat escorted boats to harbour. 2.40 p.m. S.S. Brandon, of London. Whitby (Motor) Life-boat landed a sick man. 2.40 p.m. Fishing cobles Kingfisher and Bonny Lad, of Scarborough. Scar- borough Life-boat escorted cobles to harbour. „ 10. 1.25 p.m. Motor boat Thanet Queen, of Margate. Margate Life-boat landed 3. 11.45a.m. Cutter Elizabeth, of Colchester. Clacton-on-Sea Life-boat . . . 2 FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 257

Persons Time of rescued froin 1930. Launching. shipwreck Feb. 24. 12.55 p.m. Motor fishing coble Heather, of Filey. Filey Life-boat stood by coble. „ 25. 10.47 a.m. A lighter. St. Peter Port Life-boat saved vessel and rescued . 3 Mar. 2. 6.45 p.m. S.S. Macville, of Dundee, and S\S. Moko Maru, of Dairen. Dover Life-boat rendered assistance. 5. 4.15 a.m. S S. Erik Larsen, of Rostock. Dungeness No. 1 Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 6. 9.0 a.m. S.S. Cruden, of Dundee. Montrose No. 1 Life-boat .... 7 „ 14. 4.20p.m. H.M. Seaplane 1044. Bembridge Life-boat saved seaplane and 6 „ 15. 5.15 p.m. Two boats of S.S. Corchester, of London. Walton-on-the-Naze Life-boat rendered assistance. „ 18. 1.15 p.m. Motor fishing boat Promote, of Fraserburgh. Fraserburgh Life- boat stood by boat. „ 20. 1.0 p.m. Fishing boat Rose, of New Quay. New Quay (Cardigan) Life-boat stood by boat. „ 24. 11.35 a.m. Barge Runic, of London. Margate Life-boat stood by vessel. April 1. 3.45 p.m. Fishing boat Queen of the Fleet, of Arbroath. Arbroath Life-boat stood by boat. 2. 8.30 p.m. Steam trawler Glen Clova, of Aberdeen. Aberdeen No. 2 Life- boat 1 „ 3. 11.45 a.m. Fishing cobles Kudos, Kingfisher, Jock, Treasure and Eagle, of Scarborough. Scarborough Life-boat escorted cobles to harbour. „ 3. 12.20 p.m. Fishing cobles Provider and Our Girls, of Newbiggin. Newbiggin Life-boat stood by cobles. „ 3. 2.45p.m. Ketch Isabella, of Gloucester. Rosslare Harbour Life-boat 4 ,, 13. 1.5 p.m. Barge Mazeppa, of Harwich. Walton-on-the-Naze Life-boat landed 4 from the Kentish Knock Lightvessel. „ 13. 9.15p.m. Motor launch Trixie. The Mumbles Life-boat rendered assistance. „ 19. 3.45 p.m. S.S. Cape Wrath, of Aberdeen. Rosslare Harbour Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 25. 3.0 a.m. Steam trawler Star of the East, of Scarborough. Robin Hood's Bay Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 26. 1.15 a.m. Steam trawler George Aunger, of Aberdeen. Anstruther Life-boat rendered assistance. „ J26. 9.45 a.m. Fishing cobles Minnie, Jane and Rose of England, of Staithes. Staithes Life-boat stood by boats. „ 28. 2.30 a.m. Admiralty fuelling steamer Rosa. Flamborough No. 1 Life-boat . 16 „ 29. 9.30p.m. Yacht Billikat. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat saved 2 May 25. 1.35 p.m. Rowing boat Tom Bowling, of Lowestoft. Lowestoft Life-boat . 3 June 1 . 2.50 a.m. S S Inner of Helsingborg Eastbourne Life-boat .... 1 ,, 3. 8.25 a.m. Fishing coble St. Hilda, and motor fishing boats Faith and Irene, of Whitby. Whitby (Motor) Life-boat stood by boats. „ 3. 8.30 a.m. Motor fishing boats Flora, Freda and Mizpah, of Staithes. Staithes Life-boat stood by boats. 7. 9.10p.m. Motor launch Scintus, of Liverpool. New Brighton No. 2 Life- boat rendered assistance. „ 14. 6.35 a.m. S.S. Gedania, of Danzig. Ramsgate Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 14. 7.30 p.m. Fishing boat Cachalot, of Morecambe. Kirkcudbright Life-boat stood by boat. „ 15. 7.55 p.m. A motor boat. Clacton-on-Sea Life-boat saved boat and rescued . 3 253 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931.

Persons Time of rescued from 1930. Launching. shipwreck. June 24. 7.10 p.m. Motor yaeht Panther, of Southampton. Selsey and Bognor Life- boat assisted to save boat and rescue 5 „ 28. 1.7 p.m. Motor fishing boat Albert, of Seaham. Seaham Life-boat saved boat and rescued . . ... 3 „ 30. 4.50 p.m. Bathing Station Raft at Montrose. Montrose No. 2 Life-boat 7 July 5. 4.0 a.m. Steam trawler Strathgyle, of Aberdeen. Longhope Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 21. 10.50 a.m. Motor yaeht Stella, of Greenock. Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat saved vessel and rescued- . . 3 Aug. 2. 8.0 p.m. Houseboat Diadem. Southend-on-Sea Life-boat saved boat and landed 5. 8. 4.30 p.m. Steam trawler Louis Botha, of Grimsby. Longhope Life-boat assisted to save vessel. „ 10. 4.0 a.m. Four Royal Air Force boats, of Plymouth. Plymouth Life-boat saved boats and rescued . .... 40 „ 16. 6.25 a.m. Steam trawler Jean Dore, of Boulogne. Caister Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 18. 7.0 a.m. S.S. Reavers Butter, of Cardiff. Rosslare Harbour Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 19. 9.50 a.m. Motor yacht Cymro, of Holyhead. Douglas Life-boat escorted vessel to safety. „ 20. 12.15 a.m. Ketch Henrietta, of Kilkeel. Moelfre Life-boat landed 3. „ 21. 4.20 a.m. Fishing fleet of Filey. Filey Life-boat rendered assistance. ,, 21. 6.10 a.m. Motor yacht Etenia, of King's Lynn . Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat rendered assistance. „ 21.. 2.0 p.m. S.S. Kernoozer, of Yarmouth. Bridlington Life-boat rendered assistance. „ 23. 9.30 a.m. Motor yacht Firefly, of Southampton. Eastbourne Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 23. 3.40 p.m. Auxiliary sloop Dakar, of Hull. The Humber No. 1 Life-boat 2 „ 29. 3.20 p.m. Steam drifter Ocean Lassie, of Yarmouth. Blyth Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 30. 1.10p.m. Steam drifter Girl Ena, of Yarmouth. Filey Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 30. 9.25 p.m. Steam trawler Cornelian, of Grimsby. Runswick Life-boat rendered assistance. Sept. 6. 6.30p.m. Fishing bo&tAysha, of Garston. New Brighton Life-boat rendered assistance. „ 17. 4.15 p.m. Yawl Boozer, of Ballycotton. Ballycotton Life-boat saved vessel and rescued ... . . 2 „ 18. 8.0 a.m. Ketch Bonny Jane, of Peel. Port Erin Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 19. 7.50 a.m. S.S. Treport, of London. Margate Life-boat . . ... 2 „ 19. 8.0 a.m. Fishing boat Benita, of Wexford. Rosslare Harbour Life-boat saved boat and rescued . . 4 „ 19. 9.15 a.m. A fishing boat, of Wicklow. Wicklow Life-boat stood by boat. „ 19. 1.40p.m. Fishing cobles The Eagle, Premier and Reliance 11., of Scarborough. Scarborough Life-boat escorted cobles into harbour. „ 19. 2.0 p.m. Fishing boats Fortunatus and Sceptre, of Bridlington. Bridlington Life-boat stood by boats. „ 19. 6.15p.m. Yacht Emanuel, of Bridgwater. Padstow No. 2 Life-boat saved vessel and rescued ... 2 „ 19. 10.35 p.m. Ketch Leonie, of St. Malo. Weymouth Liie-boat 2 „ 20. 3.30 a.m. S.S. Umberleigh, of London. Plymouth Life-boat landed 18. FEBRUARY, 1931.] THE LIFEBOAT. 259 Persons Time of rescued from 1930. Launching. shipwreck. Sept. 20. 9.20 a.m. Ketch Leonie, of St. Malo. Weymouth Life-boat saved vessel. „ 20. 7.55p.m. Motor vessel Senator, of Hamburg. Hythe Life-boat stood by vessel. ,, 23. 6.10a.m. S.S. City of Osaka, of Liverpool. Peterhead Life-boat .... 32 ..' 26. 12.:!5p.m. Schooner Doris, of Thuro. Hartlepool Life-boat 9 ,, 27. 5.0 p.m. Drifters Brighter Hope, Nellie Gardner and Aver/all, of Banff; La Parisienne, of Lowestoft; Treasure, of Grimsby ; and Dewie Rose, of Fraserburgh ; and motor fishing boat Valkyrie, of Fraserburgh. Scarborough Life-boat escorted boats to harbour. Oct. 1. 9.30a.m. Four fishing boats, of Berwick-on-Tweed. Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat stood by boats. 1. 11.35 a.m. Motor fishing boats Faith and Irene, of Whitby. Whitby (Motor) Life-boat escorted boats to harbour. ,, 2-4. 8.15 a.m. Motor vessel Ben Johnson, of London. Exmouth Life-boat stood by vessel. 5. 4.0 a.m. Motor fishing boat Tennessee., of Lowestoft. Lowestoft Life-boat saved boat and rescued 2 ,,- 8. 5.15 a.m. Motor vessel Eiffel Tower, of London. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat rendered assistance. 8. 3.30p.m. Motor fishing boat White Heather, of Burnmouth. Berwick-on- Tweed Life-boat stood by boat. „ 18. 1.15a.m. Fishing coble Lily, of Seaham. Sunderland Life-boat saved boat and rescued 3 ., 19. 9.50 a.m. Steam trawler Phineas Beard, of London. . Ballycotton Life-boat rendered assistance. „ 20. 6.0 p.m. Fishing boat Fair Eleanor. Hoylake Life-boat rendered assistance. „ 21. 12.15p.m. Steam drifter Girl Evelyn, of Fraserburgh. Cromer No. 1 Life-boat assisted to save vessel. .. 25. 8.45 a.m. Motor fishing boat Plover, of Hastings. Hastings Life-boat saved boat and rescued 2 ,, 25. 2.35p.m. Schooner Volant, of Kilkeel. Moelfre Life-boat landed 4. „ 25. 3.15 p.m. Small boat Tim, of Clacton-on-Sea. Walton-on-the-Naze Life- boat 2 „ 26. 11.12a.m. Rowing boat Robin, of Shoreham. Shoreham Harbour Life-boat saved boat and rescued 2 „ 26. 7.15p.m. S.S. Bavensrlale, of Newcastle. St. Peter Port Life-boat stood by vessel. Nov. 1. 6.50p.m. Steam trawler Kingston Olicine, of Hull. Humber No. 2 Life-boat rendered assistance. 2. 6.45 a.m. Motor trawler Maisonette, of Wootton Creek. Bembridge Life- boat saved vessel and rescued 5 2. 10.25 a.m. Yacht Lucy B, of Rye. Selsey and Bognor Life-boat .... 2 „ 2. 2.45 p.m. S.S. Menelaos, of Piraeus. Bembridge Life-boat rendered assist- ance. 2. 10.40p.m. S.S. Menelaos, of Pirams. Selsey and Bognor Life-boat ... 7 „ 6. 7.15 a.m. Ketch Dido C., of Barnstaple. St. Ives Life-boat landed 3. 8. 4.10a.m. St. Coven's Lightvessel. Tenby Life-boat landed an injured man. ,, 16. 5.1 a.m. S.S. Hursley, of Hull. Ramsgate Life-boat 6 „ 16. 1.0 p.m. Schooner Carmenta, of Plymouth. New Brighton No. 2 Life-boat stood by vessel. ,, 20. 12 noon. Twelve motor fishing boats, of Bridlington. Bridlington Life-boat stood by boats. ., 22. 7.45p.m. Auxiliary yacht Auriga, of London. Walton-on-the-Naze Life- boat 9 260 THE LIFEBOAT. [FEBRUARY, 1931.

Persons Time of rescued from 1930. Launching. shipwreck. Nov. 23. 12.30 a.m. Barge Marion, of London. Southend-on-Sea Life-boat landed 2. Barge Emily, of Ipswich. Southend-on-Sea Life-boat landed 2. Barge Charles and Esther, of Wakering. Southend-on-Sea Life- boat 2 ,, 23. 8.15 a.m. Yacht Holiday, of Yarmouth. Walton-on-the-Naze Life-boat saved vessel. ,, 24. 10.15 a.m. Motor fishing boat Rosa, of Montrose. Montrose No. 1 Life-boat stood by boat. ,, 24. 10.30 a.m. Four motor fishing boats, of Bridlington. Bridlington Life-boat stood by boats. „ 24. 10.30 a.m. Fishing fleet of Filey. Filey Life-boat stood by fleet. ,, 24. 12.30 p.m. Fishing boat Queen of the Fleet, of Arbroath. Arbroath Life-boat stood by boat. ,, 24. 4.30p.m. Motor drifter Adrianal, of Vlaardingen. Lowestoft Life-boat stood by vessel. „ 30. 1.22 p.m. S.S. Craigolive, of Belfast. Margate Life-boat stood by boat. Dec. 2. 6.40 p.m. S.S. Asmund, of Christiansand. Holyhead Life-boat .... 18 „ 11. 5.43a.m. Barge Hibernia, of London. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life- boat stood by vessel. ,, 11. 6.45 a.m. Barge Squeak, of London. Clacton-on-Sea Life-boat assisted to save vessel and rescue 2 ,, 11. 9.0 a.m. Fishing boat Tip, of Tynemouth. Cullercoats Life-boat stood by boat. ,, 15. 2.0 p.m. Motor fishing boat Comfort, of Montrose. Montrose No. 1 Life- boat stood by boat. „ 17. 11.53a.m. Motor fishing coble Isaac Elmrd, of Baulmsr. Boulmjr Life-boat escorted coble into harbour. ,, 17. 12.30 p.m. Fishing boats Mary Isabella and Faith, of Hauxley. Hauxley Life-boat escorted boats to safety. ,, 17. 5.45 p.m. S.S. Svaneholm, of Gothenburg. Stornoway Life-boat landed a sick man. ,, 20. 9.20p.m. Fishing boat Bunty, of Sslsey. Selsey and Bognor Life-boat es- corted boat into harbour. •,, 25. 11.0 a.m. Fishing boat Pollywake, of Brixham. Torbay Life-boat saved boat and rescued 1 ,, 25. 6.15 p.m. S.S. Lucy, of Helsingborg. Whitby (Motor) Life-boat .... 18 ,, 26. 1.50p.m. Fishing boat Melba, of Grimsby. Bridlington Life-boat stood by boat. „ 27. 10.5 a.m. Fishing boat Pilot Me, of Filey. Filey Life-boat stood by boat. „ 27. 3.45 p.m. The Ayr Life-boat Janet Hoyle. Troon Life-boat rendered assistance. „ 30. 9.55 a.m. Fishing boat Ivy, of Ilfracombc. Ilfracombe Life-boat ... 2

Total lives rescued from shipwreck by the Life-boats in 1930, in addition to which the Life-boats saved, or assisted to save, 30 vessels and boats 298 Life-boats also took 48 persons off vessels as a precau- tionary measure and landed them. Rewards were also granted by the Institution in the same period for rescuing from Shipwreck by means of Fishing and other Boats, etc 67 Total for 1930 365